Billy Joe Davis
MilitaryAssigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 #42-51095 Wounded in head by flak. Baled out, Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7092
Awards: POW, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31090487 / O-691465
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Shoo Shoo Baby
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Tonk Valley, TX | 18 July 1921 | Son of Joseph Baldwin and - Ana Belle [Wadley] Davis. |
Enlisted |
Tyler, TX | 14 November 1942 | Tyler, Texas |
Other Baled out POW |
Vollenhove, Netherland | 29 June 1944 | Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 42-51095 Wounded in head by flak. Baled out, POW MACR 7092 |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 29 June 1944 | Hospitalised by head wound. Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
Died |
Graham, TX | 22 January 1994 | |
Buried |
Oak Grove Cemetery, Graham, Young County, TX | 25 January 1994 | Oak Grove Cemetery Graham, Young County, TX |
Based |
Horsham St Faith | 29 June 1944 | Assigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7092 & Page 274 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &
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