Jerome Michael Finnegan

Military

Assigned to 490th Quartermaster Depot Company. Load master aboard C-47 43-15637 on re-supply mission to Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; Survived crash Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 6013



Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: C-47 Skytrain
  • Unit: 313th Troop Carrier Group 49th Troop Carrier Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Anaconda, MT 11 September 1918 Son of John Finnegan.

Enlisted

Denver, CO 27 January 1943 Denver, Colorado

Other

Survived crash POW

Cherbourg Peninsula, France 7 June 1944 Load master aboard C-47 43-15637 on re-supply mission to Cotentin peninsula 7-Jun-44; Survived crash POW MACR 6013

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 7 June 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.
Denver, CO

Based

Greenham Common 7 June 1944 Assigned to 490th Quartermaster Depot Company.