Billy Joe Davis

Military

Assigned 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

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Charles Brad Armour

  • 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

42-51095

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Shoo Shoo Baby
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Stalag Luft IV

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

Events

Event Location Date Description

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

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Capitalized "Waist Gunner" in the "Role/job" field.

 

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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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