Addison Floyd Nicholson Jr

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed at Klinckeemuehle on 6/21/44 in B-24 42-50371, Prisoner of War.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 389th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 21 June 1944 Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16

Born

Theodore, Alabama, USA

Revisions

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389th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Added a connection to Stalag Luft 4 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Added Middle Name per MACR 6532 at Fold3.com.
Source: https://www.fold3.com/image/28991698

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Copied "Born event" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

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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.

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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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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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MACR 6532 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database