Edward Ralph Holler

Military
media-15095.jpeg UPL 15095 Jack K. Larsen Crew
384th BG - 544th BS

Back L-R: Lt. John Fallon (N), Lt. Jack K. Larsen (P), Lt Warren Donovan (CP), Lt. Edward Murray (B)

Front L-R: Sgt. Robert Cole (RO), Sgt. John Moore (TG), Sgt. Karl Barnes (FE), Sgt. Edward Simon (WG), Sgt. Edward Holler (WG), Sgt. Alton Haverlah (BT)

Object Number - UPL 15095 - Jack K. Larsen Crew 384th BG - 544th BS Back L-R: Lt. John Fallon (N), Lt. Jack K. Larsen (P), Lt Warren Donovan (CP), Lt. Edward Murray...

B-17F #42-29717 'Mr. Five By Five' was last seen with one engine feathered and heading towards Switzerland on a mission to Stuttgart, GR on 25 Feb 1944. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-802583
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Stella
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mr Five by Five
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Patches : The Spotted Cow
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Milwaukee County, WI 23 October 1923
Milwaukee, WI 30 June 1942 507 East Dover

Enlisted

Milwaukee, WI 13 January 1943

Other

384th BG Combat Tour

Grafton Underwood Airfield, UK 29 November 1943 - 25 February 1944 Shot down on his 11th combat mission

Other

POW

Tychowo, Poland 1 March 1944 Stalag Luft IV

Died

Fayetteville, AR 14 February 2014 Edward R. Holler, 90 of Rogers, AR passed away Friday, February 14, 2014 in Fayetteville. He was born October 23, 1923 in Milwaukee, WI to John Edward Holler and Eliza (Rehmus). He was a retired truck driver for Wisconsin Electric Power and was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II where he was a P.O.W. for 14 months.

Buried

Fayetteville, AR 17 February 2014 Fayetteville National Cemetery Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA Plot SECTION A-1 ROW B SITE 28

Other

Shot Down/Captured

Bruschal, Germany 25 February 1944 Failed to Return Comments: 41C Group, High Squadron, Lead Group. Feathered #2 engine at 1325 hrs but continued on towards target; at 1420, three minutes before target was reached, jettisoned bombs and peeled off from formation, perhaps heading for Switzerland; crash-landed near Bruchsal, Germany. MACR 277

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2774 / MACR 2774, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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