Robert Allin
Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Peter Kowal
Military
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Peter Kowal (photo from his widow Evelyn, via daughter Melissa)
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Peter Kowal’s Air Medal card on page 583 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/139494018 (NARA)
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Peter Kowal’s Dog Tag on page 29 (KU-1487) at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/139542878 (NARA)
Peter Kowal was Navigator on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
People
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Cedric Cole
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Radio Operator | 458th Bomb Group
Cedric Cole was Radio Operator on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
James Fittinger
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW). -
Patrick McCormick
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Assigned to 753BS, 458BG. 8AF USAAF. ETD Awards: AM, PH, WWII Victory, EAME. -
James Mortinson
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 458th Bomb Group
James Mortinson was Bombardier on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
Herman Peacher
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Herman Peacher was Tail Gunner on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
Lawrence Scheiding
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Lawrence Scheiding was Ball Turret gunner on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #4129273 'Flak... -
George Spaven
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission in B-24 41-28729 on 8 March 1944. Returned to duty (RTD). George Spaven was Pilot of 41-29273 'Flak Magnet' on the 22 April 1944 mission. Hit by flak at... -
James Wedding
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW). -
Robert Zedeker
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Robert Zedeker was Co-Pilot on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). ...
Units served with
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458th Bomb Group
Group
The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force in February 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated in the decisive Campaigns 'Big Week', 'Big B', D-Day and the assault on Germany's oil industry waged... -
753rd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-29273 Flak Magnet
B-24 Liberator
MACR 4180: Spaven's A/C was hit by Flak at approximately 19:38 hours SW of Hamm, Germany. The #2 engine caught fire and the A/C fell out of formation. Four chutes were seen. A/C then was brought under control and Lt George N. Spaven Jr regained...
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22 April 1944
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Horsham St Faith
Military site : airfield
Horsham St Faith was an RAF Bomber Command Station opened in June 1940. It was home to Bristol Blenheim medium-bombers, and was for a time occupied by fighters, including those of No. 19 Squadron and No. 264 Squadron. From September 1942 the airfield...
Events
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| Born | 11 July 1919 | |
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New Jersey, United States |
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| Lived in | 1942 | |
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Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | 22 April 1944 | |
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Captured in Ostenfelde, Germany. Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan/Zagan, Poland. Force-marched from there to Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany. Liberated there 29 April 1945 by US troops. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 22 May 1945.” |
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| Died | 31 December 1997 | |
| Buried | January 1998 | |
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Peter Koval rests at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Bear, Delaware |
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Revisions
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| 13 April 2020 13:29:15 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 4180 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:21:23 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4180 / MACR 4180, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 322 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition, D790.A2S45 & Page 278of the book LIBERATORS OVER EUROPE by Mackay, Bailey & Scorza, D790G458 & href="http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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