Marvin Lester Smith

Military
media-30860.jpeg UPL 30860 Lt M. Smith. Photo credited to "Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All" by Dr. James Good Brown

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Object Number - UPL 30860 - Lt M. Smith. Photo credited to "Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All" by Dr. James Good Brown

Navigator, Manchester crew. 381st BG, 535th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 8 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29941 'Tarfu'. Mission #36 to the shipyards at Bremen, Germany. MACR 884. The aircraft was on fire and exploded, splitting the plane in half at the ball turret. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft III and Stalag XIIID.

Iowa

Credited with one German fighter destroyed on the 25 July Hamburg mission.



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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13091893
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15320377
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39256438
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-791305
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-382247
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tarfu
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron 535th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 13D, Oflag 73

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Prisoner of War

8 October 1943 Stalag Luft III Stalag XIIID

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Prisoner of War (POW)

8 October 1943

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381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999; MACR 884, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 183, www.381st.org/UnitHistory/Data/Roster.aspx / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 884 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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