Everett Sumner Allen
MilitaryAssigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 42-51095. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7092
Awards: AM (2OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars).
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31090487 / O-691465
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Shoo Shoo Baby
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
West Brookfield, Massachusetts | 16 September 1920 | Son of Benjamin Paul and Grace M Allen. |
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Enlisted |
Springfield, MA | 9 October 1942 | Springfield, Massachusetts |
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Other Baled out EVD / POW |
Vollenhove, Netherland | 29 June 1944 | Shot down by flak and crashed at Diek on 29-Jun-44 in B-24 42-51095. EVD / POW MACR 7092 |
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Other Evaded (EVD) |
Netherlands | 29 June 1944 - 18 July 1944 | Evaded with Dutch underground, betrayed to Gestapo in Maarle, Belgium. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland | 18 July 1944 - 24 April 1945 | Interrogated from 18JUL to 10AUG. Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. 10AUG to 6FEB45. Long March 6FEB to 24APR (Liberation) 26APR to 6MAY Repatriation Torgau |
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Died |
8 September 2021 | ||
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Buried |
Pine Grove Cemetery West Brookfield, Worcester County, MA | 11 September 2021 | Pine Grove Cemetery West Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts |
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Based |
Horsham St Faith | 29 June 1944 | Assigned to 754BS, 458BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
personal interview with Everett S. Allen 18JUN2020
draft card: Fold3
https://www.fold3.com/image/28707364
https://www.fold3.com/image/668099851
https://www.fold3.com/image/167508799
https://www.fold3.com/record/83434227-everett-s-allen
https://www.458bg.com/crewarmour.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139892766/benjamin-paul-allen
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192978540/grace-m-allen
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7092 & SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 194 & Page 272 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &
href="http://www.458bg.com/crewarmour.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crewarmour.htm>