Frank William Buschmeier

Military
media-44974.png UPL 44974 Frank Buschmeier (photo from https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll27/id/3974 )

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Object Number - UPL 44974 - Frank Buschmeier (photo from https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll27/id/3974 )

B-17G #42-31968 'Miss Irish' returned from a mission to Marquise/Mimoyecques, France and made an emergency landing at Raydon after taking a direct hit from an 88mm in the radio room on 19 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 15220. 
Shot down by fighters and crashed near Pauschrau/Bad Kösen, Germany on 29 July 1944 in B-17 Buffalo Gal #42-31537 - Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 7809. Prisoner of War (POW). A 24 July 2018 video interview of Frank Buschmeier can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQWGzaTh6w

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Myron "Ty" Ettus

Myron Jerome Ettus

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12127423
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

William Thomas Fitzroy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13038519 at enlistment, then O-755538
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
A battle damaged waist gun position on a B-17 Flying Fortress.

John Phillip Gibbons

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-803182
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot / Squadron Commander

Floyd Franklin Hartman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38128736 at enlistment, then O-808050
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
A bomber crew of the 96th Bomb Group with the chin turret of their B-17G Flying Fortress. In the back row from left to right: Technical Sergeant Geo Goetz, Top-Turret gunner; Technical Sergeant Bob Woherty, Radio Operator; Staff Sergeant Luigi Iacovello, left waist gunner; Staff Sergeant Roy Johnson, Ball Turret operator; Staff Sergeant Everett Johnson, right waist gunner; Staff Sergeant Charles A Haywood, Tail Gunner. In the front row left to right: First Lieutenant Paul Herring, Pilot; Flight Officer Ch

Everett Max Johnson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-691761
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

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Event Location Date Description

Born

28 February 1923

Enlisted

20 January 1943 Cincinnati, Ohio

Other

Prisoner Of War (POW)

29 July 1944 Interned at Stalag Luft 4 Heydekrug / Gross Tychow. Moved to Usedom bei Sävenmünde, Germany. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 14 JUne 1945.”

Born

Terrace Park, Hamilton County, Ohio

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Capitalized the words in the "Role/job" field to aid readability.

 

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MACR 15220
MACR 7809
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft Card
NARA WWII POW records

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Corrected typos and added details in Biography

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Added nickname per Find-a-grave MEMORIAL ID 196086498.

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Added a POW event. Also added S/N & POW camp info per POW records from National Archives.

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Removed data stating he was KIA. The description above states he was a POW.

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Michael P. Faley-100th Bomb Group Historian, www.100thbg.com

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7809 / MACR 7809, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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