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Navigator, Martin crew. 381st GB, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17#42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Broke his leg on the bomb bay door while bailing out. Picked up along with 2Lt Hoag by Dutch fishermen. Prisoner of War at Stalag 9C.
Des Moines, IA
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
BTG, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft crashed into the River Scheldt, Eastern Scheldt Tidal Basin near...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
TG, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft crashed into the River Scheldt, Eastern Scheldt basin near...
Military | Sergeant | Radio Operator | 381st Bomb Group
Radio operator, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 160. Sgt Goswick's body was never recovered. The aircraft crashed into...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 381st Bomb Group
Bombardier, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17#42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Picked up along with 2LT Harry Long by Dutch fishermen. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft III and...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
LWG, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft crashed in the River Scheldt, Eastern Scheldt Tidal Basin near...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
ETTG, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft crashed into the River Scheldt, Eastern Scheldt Tidal Basin near...
Military | Flight Officer | Co-Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Co-pilot, Martin Crew. 381st BG, 533d BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17#42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). Unknown where his body was interred and possibly never recovered due to...
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 381st Bomb Group
Pilot, Martin Crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Killed in Action (KIA). Buried in the Netherlands AMC.
Berwick, PA
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 381st Bomb Group
RWG, Martin crew. 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. Shot down 22 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30021. Mission #1 - Antwerp, Belgium. First 533rd BS loss. MACR 160. Wounded in the aircraft. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft crashed into the River Scheldt, Eastern...
Group
The 381st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Ridgewell, Essex between June 1943 and April 1945. The Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations, the first for bombing shipyards at Bremen, whilst under heavy attack, on 8 October 1943 and...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 1/4/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Smoky Hill 17/4/43; Pueblo 27/4/43; Smoky Hill 6/5/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-L] Ridgewell 29/5/43 with John Martin, Bob Marsh, Harry Long, Wallace Hoag, Jim Lantto, John Hutchinson, Hugh...
22 June 1943
The German rubber industry (Chemische Werke Hüls AG) at Marl (district Hüls-Nord), Germany, is the primary objective of this mission and is assigned to the Bomb Groups with the most expericence. Also the industrial area of Antwerp, Belgium is assigned...
Military site : airfield
Built during 1941-42 as an RAF bomber station, Ridgewell operated as a satellite to RAF Stradishall until May 1943. It had three concrete runways, initially 36 pan hardstandings, and two dispersed T2 hangars. Taken over by the Eighth Air Force in June...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Des Moines, Iowa, USA | 11 March 1917 |
| Enlisted | Fort Des Moines, IA | 6 January 1942 |
| Based | Ridgewell | June 1943 – 22 June 1943 |
| Died | Des Moines, Iowa, USA | 4 July 2000 |
| Prisoner of War | Bad Sulza, Germany | |
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Stalag 9c |
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| Buried | West Des Moines, Iowa, USA | |
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Resthaven Cemetery |
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| 23 April 2020 19:35:36 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography and events |
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| 12 June 2018 01:49:06 | ARowe95 | Changes to events and place associations |
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| 16 March 2018 02:55:49 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography, events and unit associations |
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| 13 November 2017 01:56:35 | ARowe95 | Changes to middlename, biography and awards |
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| 03 November 2017 17:23:54 | ARowe95 | Changes to biography and mission associations |
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| 09 October 2017 02:28:04 | ARowe95 | Changes to service number, biography, person associations and place associations |
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| 27 September 2014 18:12:27 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 160 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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