Military
ETTG, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft XVIIB.
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POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
RWG, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag XVIIB.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
BTG, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft III...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 381st Bomb Group
Navigator, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday to the ballbearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
LWG, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at stalag XVIIB.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Co-pilot, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 381st Bomb Group
Radio operator, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down on 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great in Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
Tail gunner, Wright crew. 381st BG, 53th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 381st Bomb Group
Bombardier, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great In Lani' or 'Sweet is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Pilot, Wright crew. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-30028 'Great in Lani' or 'Sweet Is Le Lani'. Mission #20 "Black Tuesday" to the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germay. MACR 380. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft III...
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 381st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Pueblo 10/4/43; Smoky Hill 7/5/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-H] Ridgewell 26/5/43 with Henry Peeples, Co-pilot: Jack Rogers, Navigator: Cliff Haverkamp, Bombardier: Vernon Nicholson, Flight engineer/top turret...
17 August 1943
The mission flown on 17-Aug-43, the 1st anniversary of the 1st mission flown by the 8th Air Force, is probably the most written about mission of the war. This is the famous Schweinfurt/Regensburg mission on which 60 B-17s are lost. It has been dubbed ...
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| Born | New York, NY, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 17 August 1943 |
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Stalag Luft XVIIB |
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| 16 March 2018 01:31:26 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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| 12 November 2017 00:14:53 | ARowe95 | Changes to service number, role, biography, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:07:59 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 380 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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