15th Air Force
The Fifteenth Air Force was one of two Strategic Air forces in Europe, along with the Eighth Air Force.
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Darr H Alkire
Military
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Parker Finney's POW Diary from Apr 27 1944 to Apr 29 1945. Started in Stalag III in Sagan Germany - August 30, 1944 to Jan 27 1945. Moved to Stamlager VIIA Moosberg Germany - Feb3 1945 to May 9 1945.
14 November 1942 to 26 March 1943 XFR First Commanding Officer of the 100th BG. He was relieved of his command with the 100th for alleged incompetence due to statements he made and sent to the 449th BG in Italy. He flew 11 combat missions, on his 12th mission he was shot down and became a Prisoner of War (POW). He was at Stalag Luft III where as ranking officer and Prisoner of War (POW), he had ended up in a position where he was again speaking to the men from the 100th.
Service
Units served with
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100th Bomb Group
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many... -
449th Bomb Group
Group
The group was constituted as 449th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 6 April 1943 and activated on 1 May at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona.[2] its original components were the 716th,[3] 717th,[4] 718th,[5] and 719th Bombardment Squadrons.[6] ... -
418th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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717th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Thorpe Abbotts
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group... -
Grottaglie
Military site : airfield
Events
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 31 January 1944 |
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Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
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Revisions
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| 29 September 2020 22:20:59 | jmoore43 | Changes to unit associations and place associations |
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Added a unit connection to the 15th AF and 717th BS and a connection to the AFB per MACR 2403 at fold3.com. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 29 September 2020 22:04:09 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number and events |
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Added a S/N and a POW event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 February 2020 15:57:35 | Emily | Changes to role, unit associations and place associations |
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100th Bomb Group Unit History at Bangor Public Library |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 22 June 2018 06:34:31 | cfinney | Changes to media associations |
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Entry from Parker Finney's POW Diary. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:06:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Thompson |
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