Glenn Eugene Kofoed
Military
Co-Pilot
Paul Bensel Crew - 388th BG
Warren Bock Crew - 482nd BG
Object Number - UPL 45383 - Glenn Eugene Kofoed Co-Pilot Paul Bensel Crew - 388th BG Warren Bock Crew - 482nd BG
Shot down by flak enroute to the Marshalling Yards at Frankfurt and again on the return on 4 Feb 1944 in B-17F 42-3500. Most of crew baled out, pilot was wounded so LtCol Alford, the H2X operator, made a forced landing near Winterswijk, Holland. Prisoner of War (POW).
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- Date: 29 July 1943
- Date: 28 July 1943
- Date: 25 July 1943
- Date: 24 July 1943
Places
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Blackfoot, Idaho | 10 March 1919 | |
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Other 388th BG Combat Tour |
Knettishall Airfield, UK | 24 July 1943 - 26 September 1943 | |
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Other Shot Down/Captured |
near Meddo, Netherlands | 4 February 1944 | |
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Other POW |
Barth, Germany | 15 February 1944 | Stalag Luft I |
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Died |
Spokane, WA | 25 January 2008 | |
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Buried |
Blackfoot, ID | 28 January 2008 | Grove City Cemetery Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho, USA Plot Block 123, Lot 1, Plot S |
| Long Beach, CA | 233 Euclid Avenue | ||
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Other 482nd BG Combat Tour |
RAF Alconbury, UK | 4 February 1944 |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3159 / MACR 3159, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=1286314…
http://www.388bg.com/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=388-I-HAS01-…
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6716&h=2081349…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51871650/glenn-eugene-kofoed
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=466&sc=1167…
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/6571
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=1286314…
http://www.388bg.com/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=388-I-HAS01-…
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6716&h=2081349…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51871650/glenn-eugene-kofoed
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=466&sc=1167…
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/6571
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html