Thomas Batcha
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Max Gottlieb
Military
Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 18 x combat missions. Flew with Thomas Batcha, Richard Robinson, Edward Komurka crews. Failed to Return (FTR) Solingen in B-17 42-3317 'The Spirit of '76' 30-Nov-43; hit by flak in starboard wing, baled out. Evaded capture (EVD) MACR 1559
Awards: AM (OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
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Paul Gregory
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 95th Bomb Group
Paul Gregory was a graduate of St Aloysius Academy and Niagara University in New York. After graduation he worked for the Bethlehem Steel Company in Baltimore, Maryland, before he enlisted in July 1941. He trained in the US Army Air Forces as a... -
Arthur Hensler
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 November 1943 in B-17 42-3317 'The Spirit of '76'. Prisoner of War (POW). POW -
Edward Komurka
Military | Captain | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 9 x combat missions. Awards: AM (OLC), WWII Victory, EAME. -
William Lohmann
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
After 2 years of college in Ohio, William Lohrmann enlisted in the Air Corps in April 1942. After following aerial navigation training, he was sent overseas and assigned to the 95th Bomb Group/412th Bomb Squadron. ... -
Richard Robinson
Military | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
412th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-30255 'Lonesome Polecat II'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 4/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 25/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 351BG Polebrook 10/6/43; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-V] Horham 16/6/43; battle damage on 13/11/43 Ball turret gunner: E.J. Castona (wia), Tail... -
42-30322 'Liberty Belle' 'Patches'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 14-May-43; Kearney 30-May-43; Dow Field, Bangor, Maine 2-Jun-43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-P] Horham 15-Jun-43; on Munster raid 10-Oct-43 with Bill Owen, Radio Operator: Sgt Cain WIA in throat, but rescued by RAF ASR, but ship limped... -
42-3273 'Impatient Virgin'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 18/4/43; Assigned 100BG Dow Fd 30/5/43; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-W] Horham 15/6/43; force landed RAF St Eval ex-St Nazaire 28/6/43; crash landed Gt Ashfield ex-La Pallice 16/9/43; force landed RAF Hensridge; 31m, ex-Munster 22/12/43... -
42-3317 "The Spirit of '76"
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 6 May 1943; Dow Field 30 May 1943; assigned 384th BG Grafton Underwood 10 June 1943; transferred to 412th BS/95th BG [QW-Y/V] Horham 28 June 1943; 23missions. Missing in Action Solingen 30 November 1943 with Pilot Arthur C. Hensler Jr;...
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Events
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| Based | Horham | July 1943 – 1944 |
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Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Baled out EVD | Sterrebos, Belgium | 30 November 1943 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Solingen in B-17 42-3317 'The Spirit of '76' 30-Nov-43; hit by flak in starboard wing, baled out. EVD MACR 1559 |
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| Evaded | Belgium | 30 November 1943 – 1944 |
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Evaded capture. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 29 July 2021 08:09:35 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:55 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1559 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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