Louis J Martin Jr

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed SW of Gotha on a mission to Gotha, GR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-24H #41-29192, Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 392nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Skylark, The Sky Shark
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 24 February 1944 Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16

Revisions

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Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.
Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Contributorjmoore43
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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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ContributorAAM
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MACR 2945 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database