George Willis Brannan

Military

Shot down by massive fighter attacks and crashed W of Vechta, GR on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-31735 'Lucky Lee'. Prisoner of War (POW).







Passenger 29 December 1943 ran off runway in B17#42-31062 ÒHoly TerrorÓ L. G. Lacy crew



POW

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Units served with

Aircraft

The damaged chin turret of a B-17G Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30723) nicknamed "Holy Terror" of the 100th Bomb Group.
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Holy Terror II
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron

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Born

Larned, Kansas

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Sources

100th Bomb Group Foundation Directory, 2000 - 2001; MACR 3020, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol.  I, p. 443 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia