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Shot down by fighters on the return form a mission to the Marshalling Yards at Frankfurt on 4 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-7542 'Black Widow. ' Plane crashed SE of Albert, FR. POW.
According to John Fletcher, tail gunner,
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 446th Bomb Group
Shot down on his 10th mission by fighters on the return from a mission to the Marshalling Yards at Frankfurt on 4 Feb 1944 in B-24H #42-7542 'Black Widow'. Plane crashed SE of Albert, FR. MACR #2248. KIA.
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Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
Black Widow was shot down by an FW-190A piloted by German Ace Waldemar Radener, who had a total of 23 confirmed kills, including 12 heavy bombers. The particular incident is listed among Radener's confirmed claims in a table from German federal...
4 February 1944
The railroad marshalling yards at Frankfurt, Germany were focus of this mission, but other railroad marshalling yards in the area were attacked as well. Weather and navigational errors frustrate target acquisition.748 heavy bombers were despatched in a...
Military site : airfield
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Flushing, New York, USA | 28 September 1921 |
| Enlisted | New York, NY, USA | 29 January 1941 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 4 February 1944 – 20 July 1945 |
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Stalag Luft 3, Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (now Zagan Poland) |
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| Buried | 1997 | |
| Died | Annapolis, MD, USA | 29 July 1997 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 11 January 2020 21:42:42 | jmoore43 | Changes to unit associations and mission associations |
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Added a connection to the 8th AF and a connection to the 8th AF mission for 4 Feb 1944. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 11 January 2020 21:40:47 | jmoore43 | Changes to events |
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Added the ending date for the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 23 January 2018 05:00:43 | jmoore43 | Changes to events |
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Added Cemetery location per info on Find A Grave Memorial # 49360281 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 03 February 2016 19:25:36 | jmoore43 | Changes to middlename, service number, events and place associations |
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WW II Enlistment records; Find-A-Grave memorial # 49360281; WW II POW records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:31 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2248 / MACR 2248, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces; The History of the 446th Bomb Group, pg 50 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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