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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.
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.
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...
Squadron
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...
5 June 1944
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...
Other location
Other location
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| Born | Uniontown, Alabama | 29 December 1921 |
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Son of Aussie Alonzo 'Lonnie' and Mary Lucinda 'Lucy' [McNeill] Addison. |
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| Lived in | New Orleans, LA | 1942 |
| Enlisted | New Orleans, LA | 29 July 1942 |
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New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Based | Thorpe Abbotts | 1944 – 5 June 1944 |
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Assigned to 349BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Baled out POW | East of Hardelot, France | 5 June 1944 |
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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 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV. |
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| Died | 17 January 2015 | |
| Buried | Magnolia Cemetery Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS | 21 January 2015 |
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Magnolia Cemetery |
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| 19 April 2021 15:34:38 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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Removed # from A/C serial No. to aid clarity and consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 18 April 2021 17:56:15 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added punctuation to the "Summary biography" to aid clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 06 June 2020 17:37:12 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and mission associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/28650458 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 April 2020 20:11:57 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:03:43 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5383 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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