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Co-pilot, Painter crew. Group Operations officer flying as the Deputy Group lead. 381st BG, 532nd BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Evaded (EVD).
Gresham, OR.
EE Report 170. After 1Lt Nelson landed, he met up with S/Sgt Genz (RWG). They encountered S/Sgt Whitman in a tree who fell and broke some ribs while attempting to get out of his harness. They were soon joined by S/Sgt Kellogg who was wounded in the leg inside the aircraft. S/Sgts Whitman and Kellogg were both too injured to move on. They all agreed that the two injured Sgts were going to give themselves up the next day. 1Lt Nelson and S/Sgt Genz evaded with assistance from the underground. Through Madrid and Gibraltar they eventually made it back to England on 30 October 1943.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 381st Bomb Group
Radio operator, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Prisoner of War (POW).
South Carolina
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 381st Bomb Group
Bombardier, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
RWG, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Evaded.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 381st Bomb Group
May - August 1943. Navigator, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Prisoner of War at Stalag...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
BTG, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. Wounded in the right leg while in the aircraft. Had met up...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer | 381st Bomb Group
ETTG, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
TG, Painter crew. 381st BG, 532nd BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Possibly Evaded, EVD report not found.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Pilot, Painter crew. 381st BG,532nd BS. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Killed in Action (KIA). Body found in the plane. Buried...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot; Observer | 381st Bomb Group
Co-pilot, Tail gunner, Observer, Painter crew. 381st BG, 432nd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30140 'King Malfunction II'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 379. Prisoner of War at...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
Graduated Aerial Gunner School Class 41-49 at Tyndall Field, Florida on 08 December 1942.
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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 Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Walla Walla 2/5/43; Smoky Hill 10/5/43; Dow Fd 26/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-V] Ridgewell 23/6/43; Missing in Action 6m Schweinfurt 17/8/43
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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 ...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Gresham, Oregon | 8 April 1917 |
| Evaded (EVD) | Germany | 17 August 1943 |
| Died | 1 February 1994 |
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| 16 May 2021 03:41:46 | jmoore43 | Changes to nickname |
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Removed the "Possible DUPLICATE" flag in the Nickname field and then removed the duplicate person. |
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| 16 May 2021 02:36:53 | jmoore43 | Changes to events |
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Updated the location of the EVD event to “Germany” per info in the "Summary biography". |
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| 16 May 2021 02:32:36 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography and events |
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Added an Evaded event per info in the "Summary biography". |
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| 16 May 2021 01:40:48 | jmoore43 | Changes to nickname |
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Flagged as a "Possible DUPLICATE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person. |
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| 09 November 2017 01:59:48 | ARowe95 | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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ARowe95 |
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| 27 September 2014 18:23:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999; MACR 379 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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