Donald Becker
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Technical Sergeant | Bombardier | 100th Bomb Group
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G 42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner
William Humphrey was Top Turret Gunner on board B-17 #42-30259 'Damifino II' on a 24 September 1943 practice flight to test PFF equipment and technique. Intercepted by enemy fighters and shot down. Ditched North Sea. 5 men died. William was among the 5...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
Crashed N of Itzehoe, GR on a mission to Berlin on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39817 'Murderer's Row'. Killed in Action (KIA).
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 9/9/43; Assigned 394BS/100BG [XR-A] Thorpe Abbotts 27/9/43. Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 3 March 1944 with Pilot Robert D. Vollmer, Navigator: Edward G. Sullivan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: William S. Humphrey ...
3 March 1944
A combined force of 748 heavy bombers are despatched to bomb the primary targets of Berlin, Erkner and Oranienburg, Germany, but weather and dense contrails forced most of the formations to turn back or seek Targets of Opportunity (TOs). 1st Combat...
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Leavenworth, Kansas, USA | |
Killed in Action (KIA) | Germany | 3 March 1944 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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31 March 2020 04:18:18 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
01 May 2019 12:54:28 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia ; |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
25 April 2019 13:35:00 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 3029 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:16:52 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 3029 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |