Werner P Zukunft
Military
401st BG - 613th BS
Standing Left to Right: Edward D. Hill (TG), Frederick L. Fletcher (WG), Charles E. May (BTG), Jack Sharp (RO), Harold Hallman (WG), Raymond Harman (FE), Joseph Kozlowsky (B), Werner Zukunft (N), Robert Gray (CP), William McKeon (P)
This crew was shot down on their 16th mission, 19 July 1944. 9 POW and 1 Evadee (McKeon) 401st Bomb Group collection
Object Number - UPL 37615 - William McKeon Crew 401st BG - 613th BS Standing Left to Right: Edward D. Hill (TG), Frederick L. Fletcher (WG), Charles E. May (BTG), Jack...
Completed 17 missions.
Shot down by flak and crashed near Corne on 7/19/44 in B-17 #44-6129, Prisoner of War (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: D-Day Dottie
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Duffy's tavern
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 487th Bomb Group 838th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 19 July 1944
- Official Description:
- Date: 18 July 1944
- Date: 13 July 1944
- Date: 11 July 1944
- Date: 7 July 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Hamburg, Germany | 7 April 1920 | |
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Other Departed Hamburg to emigrate to the USA |
Hamburg, Germany | 8 August 1923 | Ship: Orca/Demerara |
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Enlisted |
Hartford, Connecticut | 30 January 1943 | |
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Other 401st BG Combat Tour |
Deenethorpe Airfield, UK | 30 May 1944 - 19 July 1944 | |
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Other 7th Combat Mission |
Hamburg, Germany | 20 June 1944 | Had the unenviable task of navigating his crew on a mission to bomb the city of his birth, where it is certain he had relatives still living. |
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Other Prisoner of War |
Zagan, Poland | 19 July 1944 | Stalag Luft III |
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Other Shot Down/Captured |
Corne, France | 19 July 1944 | |
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Died |
New Haven, Connecticut | 27 April 2008 |
Revisions
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8157, Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum Membership List, July 2000,
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