Assigned to 349BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Chas Peterson crew. Failed to Return Abbeville mission in B-17 43-37591; collided with another aircraft 5-Jun-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5383
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
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Military | Flight Officer | Pilot | 100th Bomb Group
Assigned to 349BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return Abbeville mission in B-17 43-37591; collided with another aircraft 5-Jun-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 538
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
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Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many...
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Aircraft
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 2/5/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Dow Fd 24/5/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR- ] Thorpe Abbotts 27/5/44; Missing in Action Abbeville 5/6/44 with Chas Peterson, Co-pilot: Jim Keefe, Navigator: Elmer Vishion, Bombardier: Jim Jones, Flight engineer...
Associated Place
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Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
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Events
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Born |
Uniontown, Alabama |
29 December 1921 |
Son of Aussie Alonzo 'Lonnie' and Mary Lucinda 'Lucy' [McNeill] Addison.
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Lived in |
New Orleans, LA |
1942 |
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Enlisted |
New Orleans, LA |
29 July 1942 |
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Based |
Thorpe Abbotts |
1944 – 5 June 1944 |
Assigned to 349BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.
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Baled out POW |
East of Hardelot, France |
5 June 1944 |
Failed to Return Abbeville mission in B-17 43-37591; collided with another aircraft 5-Jun-44. POW MACR 5383
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Prisoner of War (POW) |
Tychowo, Poland |
5 June 1944 – May 1945 |
Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.
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Died |
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17 January 2015 |
Buried |
Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS |
21 January 2015 |
Magnolia Cemetery
Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
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