William W Martin

Military

Crashed near Rehau on 8 Apr 45 in B-17 #43-37942, Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-37942

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Flippy, The Blue Fairy
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Delhart, Texas, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 8 April 1945

Revisions

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Changes
Sources

Added a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=3159&mtch=2&tf=F&q=Wi…

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13739 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database