Military
Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-17 #42-102479, Prisoner of War (POW).
Flying out of Rattlesden, England on April 29, 1944, he was shot down over Berlin with four of his crew losing their lives. He was interned in Stalag Luft III. In February 1945, as Russian troops advanced, he was among the Prisoner of War (POW)s the Germans moved by boxcar to a camp at Nuremberg to avoid liberation. As American forces closed in on Nuremberg, he was then moved to Moosburg, in Bavaria, and ultimately liberated by General Patton's tank corps on April 29, 1945.
POW
Group
The 447th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses on strategic bombardment missions out of Rattlesden, Suffolk. With their first mission coming on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1943, their main focus was hitting sites that would weaken enemy forces...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 708BS/447BG [CQ- ] Rattlesden 8/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Edgar Farrell, Co-pilot: John Benedict, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Peters, Radio Operator:...
Other location
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Memphis, Tennessee, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 29 April 1944 |
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Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 17 January 2022 21:47:16 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number, biography, events and place associations |
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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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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:20:37 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4255 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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