Clifford H Allen

Military

Shot down by fighters near the IP and crashed N of Abbeville, FR on a mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR on 2 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-31776 'Maggie's Drawers'. Prisoner of War (POW).

POW

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Units served with

351st Bomb Group

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

508th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-31776

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Maggie's Drawers
Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron

Places

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-107124) of the 351st Bomb Group flies over Polebrook.

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Alfred, Maine, USA
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Belgium	2 March 1944

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Alfred, Maine, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Belgium

2 March 1944

Revisions

Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:29

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2865 / MACR 2865, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database