Edmund J Radke Jr

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42-102667, Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

Connections

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Units served with

Three airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, Lieutenant Kenneth Menzie, Lieutenant Donald Strout and Lieutenant Norman Scott, plan the route they will take during the next mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30380). Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and passed U.S. Army 23 Aug 1943 Press Censor E.T.O. U.S.A.' [stamp]'. Passed for publication 23 August 1943 INTLD 16 General Section Press Censorship Bureau '[stamp], 'Associated Press' [stamp] and '280035.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reve
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Yankee Wine
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 351st Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 29 July 1944 Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11

Revisions

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Added POW camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added a connection to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).

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Added a connection to the 100th BG per info in the Bomb squadron description.

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Removed the "Possible DUPLICATE" flag in the Nickname field and then removed the duplicate person.
Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

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Flagged as a "Possible DUPLICATE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person.

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

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ContributorAAM
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MACR 7814 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database