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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Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368
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
Military | Captain | Pilot | 452nd Bomb Group
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 452nd Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Zwickau on 19 Mar 45 in B-17 'Daisey Mae' #4338368
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).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 452nd Bomb Group
Air Medal; American Theater Medal; EAME Medal w 3/bronze stars; WW II Victory Medal
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).
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
Military | 452nd Bomb Group
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
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...
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...
Squadron
Squadron
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,...
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,...
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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...
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Born | Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA | |
Prisoner of War (POW) | Zwickau, Germany | 19 March 1945 |
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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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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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16 July 2015 20:28:43 | DaiseyMaeB17 | Changes to person associations |
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Entered by grandson |
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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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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 |