Theodore Pratt Jr

Military

Crashed at Hamburg on 10/30/44 in B-24 42-100431, Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

Robert Dix

42-100431

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Bomb-Ah-Dear
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

Events

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Prisoner of war

30 October 1944

Born

Tuscon, Arizona

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10166 & Page 281 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010