Johnny R Enlow
MilitaryBack row: Walter Backman, Darwin Arnold, Warren Hawes, Andrew Archiopoli.
Front row: Mark Overstreet , Johnny Enlow, Charles Kane, Howard Reppert, Elvis Lehman
US Air Force Official Photo via Fold3
Re-upload of UPL 44546 (now deleted) due to technical error with original image.
Johnny R. Enlow was Flight engineer/Top Turret gunner on the Warren Hawes Crew (Crew Number 18) in the 390th Bomb Group. He flew most missions with the Hawes crew on B-17 #42-31717 “HELLS BELLS”. In total, he flew 41 missions in two tours. He was shot down near the French border on his 41st mission. A German farmer hid him for almost two weeks till local enforcement stopped hounding the town for U.S. airmen possibly hiding or being hidden. He was taken to the French border then the underground delivered him to the coast where he was taken back to England. He then spent the rest of his 2nd tour as an engineer aboard a B-17G outfitted to ferry top officials around the safe zones of the war.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20738401 at enlistment
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17071899 at enlistment
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19102610 at enlistment
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12164116
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Parham
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
21 January 1921 | Oildale, Kern County, California | |
Enlisted |
9 September 1942 | Los Angeles, California | |
Lassen County, California |
Revisions
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft Card
2005 e-mail correspondence with fellow crew member Johnny Enlow's nephew Troy
If anyone has any information that can be added it would be most welcome as we do not know what mission, aircraft or target . By his second tour he was mostly a relief engineer going up on any ship that needed one and he never really knew the name of the aircraft , pilots name or the target. Troy L. Enlow Seattle Wa. [email protected]
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.390thspace.com/missions.php?name=Enlow%2C+Johnny+R