Herman Arthur Peacher

Military

Herman Peacher was Tail Gunner on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).



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Lawrence John Scheiding

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16092460
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

George Napier Spaven

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13014831 / O-531028
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

James Homer Wedding

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33192630
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Robert Lyndel Zedeker

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811278
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

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Event Location Date Description

Born

16 June 1917 Laclede, Linn County, Missouri, United States

Enlisted

2 November 1942 Jefferson Barracks, Missouri

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

22 April 1944 captured, he was hospitalized in the Menden Reserve hospital, Germany, for a fractured ankle. Interned at Stalag Luft 4 in Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Pomerania. Force-marched from there to Wobbelin bei Ludwigslust, then to Usedom/Savenmünde, Germany. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 3 July 1945.”

Died

8 October 2008
San Diego, California
Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri

Buried

Herman Peacher rests at the La Vista Memorial Park, National City, California

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MACR 4180
WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft card
WWII POW records
Downed Allied Aircraft Kampfflugzeug Unterlagen (KU) Reports KU 1487 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/139542878
Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

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MACR 4180

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4180 / MACR 4180, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 375 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) & Page 280 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &

href="http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database