Robert Tessier
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 94th Bomb Group
Assigned to 332BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 26-Jul-43 in B-17 42-30174 'Gorgeous Hussy'. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 90
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Lester Arnold Beck
Military
Assigned to 332BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 26-Jul-43 in B-17 42-30174 'Gorgeous Hussy'. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 90
Awards: POW, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
Units served with
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94th Bomb Group
Group
Activated 15 June 1942 at MacDill Field, Florida. Initial organization and training at Pendleton Field, Oregon on 29 June 1942. Primary flight training at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona from 28 Aug. 42 to 31 Oct. 42; then at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas... -
332nd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Part of 94th Bomb Group.
Aircraft
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42-30174 'Lady Luck II'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/43; Smoky Hill 29/4/43; Tinker 13/5/43; Lincoln 17/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-S] Earls Colne 25/5/43 LADY LUCK II; Rougham 13/6/43, transferred 410BS [GL- ]; Missing in Action Hanover 26/7/43 with Bob Tessier,...
Associated Place
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Bury St Edmunds
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and... -
Stalag XVII-B
Other location
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Dulag Luft 12
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Magnolia, AR | 31 March 1918 |
| Based | Bury St Edmunds | 1943 – 26 July 1943 |
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Assigned to 332BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Enlisted | 21 May 1943 | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Krems an der Donau, Austria | 26 July 1943 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 09 May 2021 09:53:45 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/29416650 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:18:45 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 90 |
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