William S Northington Jr

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed near Magdeburg on 6/20/44 in B-17 #42-102612, Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.

96th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-102612

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Bethelem, Pennsylvania, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 20 June 1944 Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich 48-11)

Revisions

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Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Copied "Summary biography" and the middle name field from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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ContributorAAM
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MACR 5897 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database