Alfred Scott Farrington

Military
media-27394.jpeg UPL 27394 Scott Farrington served as a tail gunner with the 376th Bomb Group.

Shared with the American Air Museum as a gift from Sandra Farrington Kleiber, daughter of Scott Farrington via Michael Rafferty.

Object Number - UPL 27394 - Scott Farrington served as a tail gunner with the 376th Bomb Group.

SSgt. Scott Farrington served as a tail gunner with the 515th Bombing Squadron of the 376th Bomb Group. He flew on Lt. Donaldson Hurd's B-24D, Dopey Goldberg, on the Ploesti bombing mission. 1 Aug 1943.

Sgt. Farrington was shot down in, Teggie Ann, with Lt. Hurd over Foggia, Italy, a couple of weeks later and held as a Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft XVIIb. Sgt. Farrington, Lt. Hurd, and his crew survived the bail out and the mission, and were captured. Teggie Ann, crashed at Melfi, Italy, and Failed To Return (FTR). The shoot down was credited to Unteroffizier Martin Muller in a Bf-109G-6 from JG 3/12. Aug 16, 1943. 10 POW. MACR 298.

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Units served with

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

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Yankee Rebel - Dopey Goldberg
  • Unit: 376th Bomb Group 515th Bomb Squadron
Crew bus disgorges the crew of B-24 Liberator, 42-40664, Teggie Ann, Honey Chile, 515th BS, 376th BG, 9th Bomber Command, a participant of the Ploesti raid. 1 Aug 43
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - Honey Chile - Liberandos - Teggie Ann
  • Unit: 376th Bomb Group 515th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Bengazi Airfield, Wheelus Airbase
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Kokomo, Indiana, USA 30 September 1916

Enlisted

Indianapolis, IN, USA 16 June 1942

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Near Krems Austria 16 August 1943 Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15

Other

Shot down

Foggia, Province of Foggia, Italy 16 August 1943

Died

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 13 May 1958 aged 41
Kokomo, IN, USA

Buried

Kokomo, IN, USA Sunset Memory Garden

Revisions

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Black Sunday-Ploesti - Michael Hill

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Black Sunday-Ploesti - Michael Hill

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Added details. - Kickapoo

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Updated the location of the "POW" event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Removed extraneous info from Buried event.

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Added Born and updated Died and Buried events per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 73471708.

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Correspondence with Michael Rafferty and his contribution to Hurd B Donaldson's record.
Documents via Sandra Farrington Kleiber, the daughter of Scott Farrington.

NARA enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf…

http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&rec=63628
https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73471708

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