William Feinstein
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) near Kahlstorf, Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387.
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Marvin Lawson Gooden
Military
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387.
Service
People
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Reynaldo Garcia
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387. -
William Garner
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387. -
William Logan
Military | Staff Sergeant | Bombardier/Togglier | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Shot down near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany, 3-Feb-45, in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387. Prisoner of War (POW). ... -
John McCormick
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Involved in the mid-air collision between his B-17 42-97387 'Maude an' Maria' and B-17 43-38697 of (603rd BS) on the 3-Feb-45 mission to Berlin. Captured in Kahlstorf, East of Lehmke, Germany... -
Joseph Stritch
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3-Feb-45 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387. Awards: AM (3OLC), PH. -
Jack Withrow
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin in B-17 42-97387 'Maude an Maria' crashed near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany 3-Feb-45 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), EAME, PH. -
Ray Woltman
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Kahlstorf, Germany, 3-Feb-45, in B-17 42-97387 'Maude an Maria'. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 12214 Awards: AM (4 OLC), PH.
Units served with
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398th Bomb Group
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies... -
602nd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-97387 "Maude an' Maria"
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-H] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; (81m). About an hour after bombs away, B-17 #42-97387 was observed to be involved in a mid-air collision with B-17 #43-38697 (of 603rd BS) on...
Missions
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817
3 February 1945
Associated Place
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Nuthampstead
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Fillmore, Ventura County, California | 14 March 1923 |
| Lived in | June 1942 | |
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Fillmore, California |
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| Enlisted | Fresno, CA | 12 March 1943 |
| Based | Nuthampstead | 1944 – 3 February 1945 |
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Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Killed in Action (KIA) | Kahlstorf, Germany | 3 February 1945 |
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near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 #42-97387 “Maude an Maria” |
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| Buried | 4 February 1945 | |
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at the Lehmke cemetery, Germany |
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| Buried | Bardsdale Cemetery, Fillmore, CA | 1948 |
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After the war, his remains were brought back to the US. Marvin Gooden rests at the |
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Revisions
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| 15 September 2020 13:55:18 | ED-BB | Changes to middlename, biography, awards, events, person associations and mission associations |
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MACR 12214 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 13 January 2019 10:39:38 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, biography and events |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/46713496 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:47 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12214 / MACR 12214, Mention in Hell from Heaven: Memoirs of a WW II B-17 Bombardier by Streitfeld with picture of some crew members on p. 115 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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