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Military
S/Sgt Roscoe J. Alderman
WIA 26 July 1943 on board B-17 #42-30274.
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW).
See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW).
See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW).
See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Technical Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Served 3 March 1942-1 January 1946. Flew 9 missions, not all on Our Bay-Bee. WIA 26 Jul 1943 B-17 #42-30274. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag 17B, Krems. Also wounded while POW, shot when 2 other...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee'. Prisoner of War (POW). See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW). See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Evaded (EVD). Helped by the Belgian Comète evasion network, he was back in England on 23 November 1943. See the story of his evasion at https://www.evasioncomete.be/fminnicmg.html
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Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Prisoner of War (POW). See the Baker crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30274 'Our Bay-Bee', Evaded (EVD). Helped by the Belgian Comète evasion network, he was back in England on 23 November 1943. See the story of his evasion at https://www.evasioncomete.be/fsarnowhp.html
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
A Ball Turret gunner on B-17 #42-30274, Sgt John White was not a regular "Our Bay-Bee" Crew member. He was flying as a substitute the day they were shot down and it was the only mission he flew with the William Baker crew. He landed in Belgium and...
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 8 May 1943; Gore 9 May 1943; Smoky Hill 17 May 1943; Dow Field 5 June 1943; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 15 June 1943; 5 missions. Missing in Action Regensburg 17 August 1943 with a 335BS crew. Pilot 1st Lt Walter A. Baker;...
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 ...
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 17 August 1943 |
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Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 12 May 2021 07:26:57 | ED-BB | Changes to biography |
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Added website address for the Baker crew |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 18 March 2021 14:50:38 | ED-BB | Changes to middlename, biography, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 402 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 April 2020 21:32:13 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number and events |
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Added POW camp information to the POW event and a S/N per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 April 2020 21:26:51 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "#" to the A/C serial numbers in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 November 2018 12:06:18 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography, events, person associations and unit associations |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:24:30 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 402 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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