Leonard Eugene Hamaker Jr
Military
Hamaker family records
Object Number - UPL 16770 - 2nd Lt. Leonard E. Hamaker Jr. co-pilot of 'Rose O' Day' (B-17F serial # 41-24495). Spent 28 months as a POW as 'guest' of the German Government ...
Shot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 41-24495 'Rose O'Day' while serving as Co-Pilot. Prisoner of War (POW). Officially recognized by German Gov't as American POW #99. Interned at Dulag Luft, Oflag 23b, Stalag Luft 3, and Stalag 7b. Cartoonist, sent POW cartoon drawing of POW daily life to be published in American Red Cross POW Newsletters during 1943 and 1944. Liberated from Stalag 7b (Moosburg, Germany) on April 29, 1945.
POW
Connections
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rose O Day
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 22 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 9 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 8 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 7 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 20 December 1942 - 25 May 1945 | Held at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan-Silesia (now Poland) later moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 25-May-45. |
Revisions
Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per info in the "Summary biography".
Copied "middle name" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so one person can be deleted.
Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014, Added crew position to description per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; made connections to Place, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55
