Matthew W Grden

Military
media-55234.jpeg UPL 55234 WARREN F. MAUGER CREW - 359th BS
(crew assigned 359BS: 24 Dec 1944)

(Back L-R) 2Lt Norman C. Gadbois (B/GHN), 1Lt Warren F. Mauger (P)(EVD),
1Lt William T. Burgess (CP)(POW), 2Lt Bernard J. Brown (N)
(Front L-R) T/Sgt Matthew W. Grdeń (R)(POW), T/Sgt Glenn R. Walling (E/TG)(KIA),
Sgt Gerald H. Craven (WG)(KIA), S/Sgt Francis H. Kelley (BT)(KIA), S/Sgt James W. Haley (TG/SJ/RCM)

Ranks and grades at the time of last combat mission 303rd Bomb Group collection

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Object Number - UPL 55234 - WARREN F. MAUGER CREW - 359th BS (crew assigned 359BS: 24 Dec 1944) (Back L-R) 2Lt Norman C. Gadbois (B/GHN), 1Lt Warren F. Mauger (P)(EVD), 1Lt...

On 24 December 1944, Staff Sergeant Matthew W. Grdeń was performing his duties as a B-17G Radio Operator in the 303rd Bomb Group's Mission No. 364, when his plane crashed near Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and both he and Sgt. Earl M. Dugan was captured and became Prisoners of War.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.

303rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Prisoner of war

24 December 1944

Born

Russelton, Pennsylvania

Revisions

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Sources

GENERAL ORDER # 261, 28 March 1945, from Headquarters 1 Air Division by Brigadier General Turner and https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13789119/matthew-w-grde%C5%84

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 14223 / Roster

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