Robert Hugh Ostrander
MilitaryAssigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 42-31427. Plane ditched into Baltic. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 4010
Awards: DFC, AM(OLC), PH, POW, 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: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14076177 / O-801968
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Watertown, SD | 20 October 1924 | Son of William F and Lula Bell [Louis] Ostrander |
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Enlisted |
South Dakota, USA | 23 October 1942 | |
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Other Ditched POW |
Off Bornholm Island | 11 April 1944 | Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 42-31427. Plane ditched into Baltic. POW. MACR 4010 |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 11 April 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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Died |
Watertown, SD | 13 September 2006 | |
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Buried |
Saint Marys Cemetery, Watertown, SD | 19 September 2006 | Saint Marys Cemetery Watertown, Codington County, SD |
| South Dakota, USA | |||
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Based |
Chelveston | 11 April 1944 | Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4010