David I Anderson Jr | American Air Museum in Britain

Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 18 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364.

Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

Service

People

Charles Rutledge

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 32 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Killed in Action (KIA). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. ...

Units served with

379th Bomb Group

Group
The 379th Bomb Group (H) (heavy), based at Kimbolton, flew more sorties than any other Bomb Group in the Eighth Air Force and dropped a greater bomb tonnage than any other Group. The B-17 Flying Fortress Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit...
524th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

Aircraft

42-97890 'Queen of Hearts' "L'il Satan"

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 27/3/44; Kearney 22/5/44; Grenier 29/5/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 12/6/44 LIL SATAN; returning from Toulouse flak hit blew off nose 25/6/44 with Karl Becker; Navigator: Bob Evans, Bombardier: Arthur Maataa (2 Killed in...
43-37934 Million Dollar Baby

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 7/6/44; Kearney 18/6/44; Grenier 1/7/44; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 15/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 30/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8...

Missions

652

28 September 1944

Associated Place

Kimbolton

Military site : airfield
Planned for RAF use, Kimbolton airfield was built by W and C French Ltd. in 1941. The airfield was increased in size to accommodate a full US heavy Bomb Group, and the first such unit to us it was the 91st Bomb Group, who arrived in September 1942....
Stalag Luft I

Other location
Dulag Luft 12

Other location

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born	Missouri, USA	1 November 1915
Son of David I Anderson Snr.
Lived in	Huntington Beach, CA	1942
Enlisted	Los Angeles, CA	7 October 1942
Los Angeles California
Based	Kimbolton	July 1944 – 28 September 1944
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.
Baled out POW	Niederdodeleben, Germany	28 September 1944
Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' Crashed at Niederdodeleben. POW 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364.
Prisoner of War (POW)	Barth, Germany	28 September 1944 – May 1945
Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
Died	El Paso, TX	20 April 1983
Buried	Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso,TX	23 April 1983
Fort Bliss National Cemetery El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Date	Contributor	Update
26 June 2019 12:32:26	Al_Skiff	Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/28679030 https://www.fold3.com/record/76877202-david-anderson https://www.fold3.com/record/629007220-david-anderson-1915 https://www.fold3.com/record/85041272-david-i-anderson-jr http://www.8thairforce.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/282391/david-i-anderson
Date	Contributor	Update
22 November 2016 09:51:52	Lucy May	Changes to events, place associations and aircraft associations
Sources
Brought in information from duplicate record. Source: MACR 9364 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:07:03	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9364; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 325