Stanley C Garner
MilitaryShot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F #41-24495 'Rose O'Day while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on mission to Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Fighters were coming straight in at the nose of our plane, at that time we didn't have 50 cal. Guns so we couldn't get them. If my recollection is correct they got the number 3 engine. They came under and killed our ball turret gunner. We then got orders to bail out because we were losing altitude. He bailed out from 20,000ft. Landed near Vilcroy, France. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rose O Day
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 20 December 1942 - 21 July 1945 | Held at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan-Silesia (now Poland) later moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 21-Jul-45. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014, Added crew position to description per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added POW event and SN per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; made connections to Place, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data.
306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia