Scott Andrew Briley
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Attacked by fighters and the pilot injured and several fires on board on mission to Brunswick on 30 Jan 1944, B-17G #42-31415. Returned with the fires extinguished but five of the crew had bailed out over Germany. Returned to Duty (RTD). Awarded The Silver Star.
B-17G #42-31166 'Miss Billie Jr' lost two engines after takeoff as the spare for an operational mission on 24 Mar 1944 and was forced to make a wheels up emergency landing in a field West of Nuthampstead, Returned to Duty (RTD).
Shot down 13 April 1944 in B-17 #42-97233, Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #3874
Connections
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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: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38089757
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Miss Billie Jr
- Unit: 482nd Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron 813th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ham-On-Rye
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Vista, CA, USA | 22 June 1916 | |
Other Assigned |
17 November 1943 | Assigned to the 384th Bombardment Group, 544th Bombardment Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #146 dated 17 November 1943, Edward Anthony Fioretti Crew. Twenty combat missions. | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 13 April 1944 | POW camp: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12 |
Died |
19 January 2005 |
Revisions
Added a connection to the A/C #42-97233 listed in the "Summary biography".
Added a connection to Dulag Luft 12 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added POW camp info to the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added punctuation to the "Summary biography" to aid clarity.
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
MACR 3874, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,
http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=b... /
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
AAIR 44-03-24-524 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database