Don Borden
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 452nd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368
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Lewis G Carter Jr
Military
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Lewis Carter
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Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368
Service
People
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Claude Boydston
Military | Captain | Pilot | 452nd Bomb Group
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Arthur Burstein
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 452nd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368 -
Arthur Darling
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 452nd Bomb Group
Crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #43-38368, Prisoner of War (POW). -
Wayne Davis
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 452nd Bomb Group
Air Medal; American Theater Medal; EAME Medal w 3/bronze stars; WW II Victory Medal -
Victor Ettredge
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 452nd Bomb Group
Crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisy Mae' #43-38368, Prisoner of War (POW). -
James Fitzgerald
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 452nd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368 -
Robert Francis
Military | 452nd Bomb Group
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Donald Franklin
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 452nd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed ner Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368 -
Edward Hinrichs
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer | 452nd Bomb Group
Flew in lead plane of the 452nd, April 7, 1945 were hit by German suicide planes. The Germans sent up 120 Me-109s as suicide planes to ram our plane. they lost 105 planes, our groups was given the Presidential Citation for this mission. Flew 30...
Units served with
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452nd Bomb Group
Group
The 452nd Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Deopham Green, Norfolk, from January 1944. The air crews hit strategic sites in Germany but also supported the movement of ground forces across Europe after D-Day. On 6 June 1944 itself, the Group... -
729th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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730th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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43-38368 DAISY MAE
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/7/44; Hunter 4/8/44; Grenier 14/8/44; Assigned 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 15/8/44; 729BS; Missing in Action Zwickau 19/3/45 with Vic Ettredge, Co-pilot: Don Franklin1st mission, Navigator: Art Burstein, Bombardier: George Peden,... -
43-38780
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Lincoln 21 September 1944; Grenier 7 October 1944; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-J] Ridgewell 14 November 1944; Missing in Action 12m Mannheim 11 December 1944 with Pilot Leo Belskis, Co-pilot Glenn C. Vaughn, Navigator James V. Collett,...
Missions
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702
5 November 1944
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707
9 November 1944
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729
29 November 1944
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738
5 December 1944
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8th Air Force 760
24 December 1944
1. Decision. ... -
781
5 January 1945
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785
7 January 1945
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789
10 January 1945
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794
15 January 1945
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798
17 January 1945
Associated Place
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Deopham Green
Military site : airfield
Deopham Green was another air base constructed after America's entry into the war to Class A standards for use by the B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. When the 452nd Bomb Group arrived in January 1943 they found a main runway of 2,000 yards, two...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zwickau, Germany | 19 March 1945 |
Revisions
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| 29 May 2020 22:01:41 | Robert Hoyt | Changes to awards and media associations |
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From stories from Grandpa. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 February 2016 09:39:20 | Lucy May | Changes to role, events, unit associations and place associations |
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Brought in information from a duplicate record. Source: |
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| 16 July 2015 20:55:51 | DaiseyMaeB17 | Changes to role, awards, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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Entered by Lewis Carter's grandson after reading story by Edward T. Hinrichs (Sept. 10, 1987) about missions flown . |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 July 2015 20:28:43 | DaiseyMaeB17 | Changes to person associations |
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Entered by grandson |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 July 2015 20:18:46 | DaiseyMaeB17 | Changes to person associations |
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Entered by Lewis Carter's grandson after reading story by Edward T. Hinrichs (Sept. 10, 1987) about missions flown . |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:18:52 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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1999 Unit Roster/ MACR 13562 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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