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March - August 1943. Pilot, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382. Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III and Stalag XIIID.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
RWG, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382. Prisoner of...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer | 381st Bomb Group
ETTG, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in the B-17 42-29978 'Hells Angel". Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382. Prisoner of...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
Tail gunner, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in the B-17 42-29978 'Hells Angel". Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382....
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
LWG, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382....
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 381st Bomb Group
April - August 1943. Navigator, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 :Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on...
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot, Co-Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Co-pilot, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382....
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 381st Bomb Group
Bombardier, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in the B-17 #42-29978 'Hells Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
BTG, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382. Prisoner of...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 381st Bomb Group
Radio operator, King crew. 381st BG, 534th BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29978 'Hell's Angel'. Mission 320 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. #4 engine was damaged and the right wing was on fire. MACR 382....
Group
The 381st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 20/3/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Smoky Hill 7/5/43; Dow Fd 24/5/43; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-F] Ridgewell 31/5/43 with Reinhardt King, Neil Wright, Ed McGlynn, Francis Petrillo, Cecil Floura, Maynard Unger, Joe Lyons, Albt Pollard, Bob Dwyer,...
17 August 1943
The mission flown on 17-Aug-43, the 1st anniversary of the 1st mission flown by the 8th Air Force, is probably the most written about mission of the war. This is the famous Schweinfurt/Regensburg mission on which 60 B-17s are lost. It has been dubbed ...
Other location
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| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Moline, Illinois | 25 February 1916 |
| Prisoner of War | Germany | 17 August 1943 |
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Stalag Luft III |
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| Died | 9 December 1997 | |
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| 18 March 2018 00:16:27 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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| 05 November 2017 04:25:12 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 November 2017 04:16:59 | ARowe95 | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:22:17 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 382 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / daughter; 381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999; MACR 382 |
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