Edward Paul Troy | American Air Museum in Britain

Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Prisoner of War (POW).3 crew members were killed; 4, including Troy were seriously wounded and made prisoner (POW); 3 others managed to evade capture, but one of them was caught just before reaching Spain. See the evaders' pages at www.evasioncomete.be (search on 42-29559)

Service

People

William Barrett

Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator / Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Killed in Action (KIA). ...
Charles Bennett

Military | Lieutenant | Pilot / Co-pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. - Evaded. See his page at https://www.evasioncomete.be/fbennetca.html.
Ford Cowherd

Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer / Top Turret Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Evaded capture with the help of the Belgian COMETE evasion network. See Ford Cowherd's page athttps://www.evasioncomete.be/fcowherfc.html, with links to other evadees on his crew.
Stanley Dahlman

Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit' Killed in Action (KIA).
Robert Gaynor

Military | Staff Sergeant | Assistant Engineer / Right Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit', Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 278. 3 crew members were killed; 4, including Gaynor were seriously wounded and made prisoner (POW); 3 others managed to evade capture, but one of them was caught just...
John Greager

Military | Sergeant | Assistant Radio Operator / Ball Turret Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Prisoner of War (POW). 3 crew members were killed; 4, including Greager were seriously wounded and made prisoner (POW); 3 others managed to evade capture, but one of them was caught just before...
Thomas Hunt

Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Killed in Action (KIA). Thomas Hunt was a replacement crew member for that mission. 2 other crew members were killed; 4 were seriously wounded and made prisoner (POW); 3 others managed to evade...
Maurice Sullivan

Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Seriously wounded. Prisoner of War (POW).
Adrian Van Bemmel

Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 #42-29559 'Stupntakit'. Initially evaded, helped by the Belgian COMETE evasion network. Traveled through Belgium and France on his way to Spain. Was arrested in Saint-Jean-de-Luz near the Spanish border on 10 September...

Units served with

91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars

Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
323rd Bomb Squadron

Squadron

Aircraft

42-29559 Stupntakit

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 4/1/43; Salina 13/1/43; Homestead 1/2/43; Morrison 6/2/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Q] Bassingbourn 25/2/43; Missing in Action 13m Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Pilot Charles A. Bennett; Co-Pilot Stanley A. Dahlman; Navigator Adrian T. Van...

Missions

VIII Bomber Command 84

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 ...

Associated Place

Bassingbourn

Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
Stalag IX-B

Other location

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born	Texas, United States	1 June 1920
Enlisted	Houston, Texas, United States	13 December 1941
Enlisted as a Private in the Air Corps
Prisoner of War (POW)	Bad Orb, Germany	17 August 1943 – 22 September 1944
Seriously wounded, he was captured on 17 August 1943 near Testelt, Belgium, and brought to the Hôpital Bordet in Brussels. He was later transferred to Stalag 9B in Bad Orb, Germany and released in September 1944 in a prisoner exchange program. NARA WWII POW database : "Stalag 9B Bad Orb, Hessen-Nassau. Returned to military control 22-9/44."
Died	Houston, Texas, United States	16 March 2013
Buried	Houston National Cemetery, Houston, Texas, United States

Date	Contributor	Update
07 May 2022 07:22:04	ED-BB	Changes to biography
Sources
Updated link to the page at www.evasioncomete.be
Date	Contributor	Update
29 April 2021 21:33:40	jmoore43	Changes to place associations
Sources
Added an association to Stalag 9B per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Date	Contributor	Update
20 April 2015 09:49:04	ED-BB	Changes to middlename, service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations
Sources
NARA WWII Enlistment records NARA WWII POW records MACR 278
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:08:35	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 278 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database