John Adamson
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Hit by flak and fighters on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, B-24 #42-28720 and crashed near Finsterwalde. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Elmer P Moe
Military
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Staff Sergeant Elmer Moe of the 755th Bomb Squadron, 458th Bomb Group.
Hit by flak and fighters on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, B-24 #42-28720 and crashed near Finsterwalde. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
People
Units served with
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458th Bomb Group
Group
The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force in February 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated in the decisive Campaigns 'Big Week', 'Big B', D-Day and the assault on Germany's oil industry waged... -
755th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-28720
B-24 Liberator
Assigned to 755BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Berlin, just short of IP hit by flak causing oil leak on #4 and turbo failure #2. Dropped out of formation, calling for fighter cover, Me210's attacked them knocking out the tail...
Associated Place
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Horsham St Faith
Military site : airfield
Horsham St Faith was an RAF Bomber Command Station opened in June 1940. It was home to Bristol Blenheim medium-bombers, and was for a time occupied by fighters, including those of No. 19 Squadron and No. 264 Squadron. From September 1942 the airfield... -
Stalag Luft IV
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Lancaster, Minnesota, USA | |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 8 March 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 29 June 2017 15:43:24 | Lucy May | Changes to place associations |
| Sources | ||
| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:08:54 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3345 / MACR 3345, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 279 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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