Military
William Feinstein’s photo from his ID card on page 10 of KU-3652 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147913838 (NARA)
McCormic's crew of the 8th AF 398th Bomb Group by their B-17 at their base in England, 23 January 1945. Rear L-R: Unk, 2Lt Ray R. Woltman, 2Lt William Feinstein, 2Lt John R McCormick Front L-R: Unk, S/Sgt William G Logan, Sgt Charles Fellows, Sgt William F. "Bill" Garner, S/Sgt Reynaldo Garcia, S/Sgt Joseph F Stritch
1st Lt William Feinstein :- Air medal award card. 398BG.
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) near Kahlstorf, Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387.
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Bombardier/Togglier | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Shot down near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany, 3-Feb-45, in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Involved in the mid-air collision between his B-17 42-97387 'Maude an' Maria' and B-17 43-38697 of (603rd BS) on the 3 February 1945 mission to Berlin. Captured in Kahlstorf, East of Lehmke,...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3-Feb-45 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387.
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin in B-17 42-97387 'Maude an Maria' crashed near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany 3-Feb-45 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), EAME, PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. 26+ combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Kahlstorf, Germany, 3-Feb-45, in B-17 42-97387 'Maude an Maria'. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR
Awards: AM (4OLC), PH.
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-H] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; (81m). About an hour after bombs away, B-17 #42-97387 was observed to be involved in a mid-air collision with B-17 #43-38697 (of 603rd BS) on...
3 February 1945
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
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| Born | New York County, NY | 1921 |
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Son of Sylvia Feinstein. |
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| Enlisted | New York City, NY | 10 August 1942 |
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New York City, New York |
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| Based | Nuthampstead | 1944 – 3 February 1945 |
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Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Kahlstorf, Germany | 3 February 1945 |
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Killed in Action (KIA) near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' 42-97387 |
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| Buried | Lehmke cemetery, Germany | 4 February 1945 |
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at the Lehmke cemetery, Germany |
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| Buried | Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Montgomery County, PA | 1948 |
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After the war, his remains were brought back to the US. William Feinstein rests at the Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
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| 17 December 2021 19:55:10 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards and events |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144907337/william-feinstein |
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| 15 September 2020 09:18:29 | ED-BB | Changes to biography, awards, events, person associations and mission associations |
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MACR 12214 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 January 2019 18:15:23 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, events, person associations and unit associations |
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Key Image ID. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:27:30 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12214 / MACR 12214, Mention in Hell from Heaven: Memoirs of a WW II B-17 Bombardier by Streitfeld with picture of some crew members on p. 115 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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