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Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Albert Powell crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Rechlin in B-17 44-6085 25-Aug-44; flak hit #3 & 4 feathered, on descent losing a wing before disintegrating, crashed Schwabach-Schwankenheim, near Stettin, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 8279
Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Rechlin in B-17 44-6085 25-Aug-44; flak hit #3 & 4 feathered, on descent losing a wing before disintegrating, crashed Schwabach-Schwankenheim, near Stettin, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR...
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
For the book (An Aviator’s Dream - The Man From Painted Woods) Mostly photos and articles on my father, Lt Ernest Anders Erickson, I am assembling, have spent a lot of time researching the fate of his last ship.
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Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Other location
Other location
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| Born | Windsor, PA | 14 September 1921 |
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Son of Charles Franklin and Carrie [Gulden] Overdorff. |
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| Enlisted | Harrisburg, PA | 14 September 1942 |
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Based | Horham | 1944 – 25 August 1944 |
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Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Baled out POW | Schwabach, Germany | 28 May 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) Rechlin in B-17 44-6085 25-Aug-44; flak hit #3 & 4 feathered, on descent losing a wing before disintegrating, crashed Schwabach-Schwankenheim, near Stettin, Germany POW MACR 8279 |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Barth, Germany | 25 August 1944 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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| Discharged USAAF | 24 November 1945 | |
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Honourable discharge. |
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| Died | Lebanon, PA | 10 June 1995 |
| Buried | Mount Rose Cemetery York, PA | 14 June 1995 |
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Mount Rose Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 March 2020 17:11:09 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175967115/donald-w_-overdorff |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 March 2020 04:50:11 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 17 February 2020 10:01:42 | Al_Skiff | Changes to events |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28681176 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 17 February 2020 09:54:29 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, nickname, service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28681176 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 February 2020 22:03:03 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number and events |
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Added S/N and POW camp information from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 14 February 2020 22:01:09 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:07:44 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8279 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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