Earl Eugene Pickard
MilitaryEarl Pickard was a Pilot in the 388th Bomb Group/563rd Bomb Squadron. Shot down 30 July 1943 in B-17 #42-30202. Prisoner of War (POW). He remained in the Air Force and was posted to different bases, including in Japan in the 1950s. Ended his career with the rank of Captain.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12168148
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-673572
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-325
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38188080
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34312218
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 30 July 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
31 August 1921 | Somerset, Lincoln County, Nebraska, the son of Leo Garfield Pickard (1881-1935) and Myrtle I. (Sloan) Pickard (1900-1996), who had re-married with one B. M. Doyle | |
Enlisted |
13 December 1942 | Nebraska | |
Other Bailed out |
30 July 1943 | over Belgium from the B-17 Serial 42-30202 he was piloting | |
Other captured and made a Prisoner of War (POW) |
30 July 1943 | Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan/Zagan; force-marched from there at the end of January 1945. Arrived at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany. Liberated there by US troops 29 April 1945. NARA WWII POW records :"Returned to Allied Military Control 12 June 1945." | |
Other Re-enlisted |
23 April 1946 | in the Air Corps, as a Master Sergeant, in Portland, Oregon (he lived in Umatilla County, Oregon at the time) | |
Died |
8 November 1971 | Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon | |
North Platte City, Lincoln County, Nebraska | |||
Buried |
Athena Cemetry, Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon |
Revisions
MACR 3125
US Census 1940 for Nebraska
NARA WWII Enlistment records (1946)
Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
Personal research for 42-30202 and its crew for Tail Gunner Donald Boyd's page at http://www.evasioncomete.org/fboyddm.html
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3125 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database