481st Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion
Battalion
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
Flew on 18 missions
Military | Technical Sergeant | B17 Engineer | 96th Bomb Group
Parents: George and Pauline (Matthias) Bachman they were married in March 1911
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Captain | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
Assigned Oct 1944. March 19, 1945, Glen Wallace wrote in his diary, "What a screwed-up mission! Briefed to hit Rhuland, but didn't. Made a run over it and caught pretty accurate flak. Then we made a run on a secondary and caught more. We also we
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 5 January 1944 in B-17 #42-39816. Plane crashed into Bay of Biscay. KIA. Still Listed as Missing In Action (MIA)-Unrecoverable.
Military | Flight Officer | Bombardier | 96th Bomb Group
F/O James (Jim) N. Hentges (USAAF) WWII Veteran and POW.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
Shot down 1 May 1944 in B-17 #42-31152. Prisoner of War (POW).
Member of the Eugene W. Dingledine crew. Made Prisoner of War.
See entry for Eugene W. Dingledine at http://www.evasioncomete.be/fdingleew.html
POW
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; Bismark 5/4/44; MacDill 10/4/44; 4050 BU Daniel 6/11/44; 325 BU Avon Park 22/11/44; 554 BU Memphis 5/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 2 March 1944; Kansas City 7 March 1944; Grenier 21 April 1944. Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 25 April 1944 (no operations). Transferred 339BS/96BG [BX- ] Horham 28 April 1944. Missing in Action Brux, Czechoslovakia, 12 May 1944 with Pilot...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 3/4/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-Z] Nuthampstead 5/5/44; repaired Missing in Action 21/11/44 with Lt Landrun but ret 24/11/44; declared WW 23/12/44 and became group’s weather ship; landing gear collapsed...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/1/43; Morrison 5/3/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/3/43; transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ-L] Chelveston 10/43; then to 545BS/384BG [JD-U] Grafton Underwood 6/11/43; returning from Bremen 13/12/43...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 12/2/43; Walker 23/2/43; Smoky Hill 28/3/43; Presque 8/4/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 22/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Missing in Action Emden 21/5/43 with Capt Gil Stephenson, Co-pilot: Don Aulenbach, Navigator: Gene McGowen,...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/43; Walker 26/2/43; Salina 10/3/43; Mitchell 8/4/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ- ] Grafton Underwood 20/4/43; Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Bill McKell, Co-pilot: Chas Sweeney, Navigator: Stewart Bachtelle, Bombardier: Alf...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 15/2/43; Walker 27/2/43; Salina 10/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 17/4/43 RUTH L II (re-named LUCKY LADY); transferred 533BS/381BG [VP-W] Ridgewell 14/7/43; Missing in Action 28m Brunswick 30/1/44 with...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Memphis 12/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 21/4/43 RUM BOOGIE 3rd; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; transferred 326BS/92BG [JW-F] Alconbury 23/7/43; when war weary...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Smoky Hill 2/6/43; Gr Isle 5/6/43; Dow Fd 20/6/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-B] 3/7/43; detailed Oschersleben 28/7/43 with Carrol Bender, Co-pilot: Lewis Feldstein, rest unknown, after jettisoning bombs in The Wash crash...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Gore 1/6/43; Smoky Hill 2/6/43; Gr Isle 4/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-Y] Snetterton 1/7/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Edmund Bolstad, Co-pilot: Harry Sharpe, Navigator: Jim Montague, Bombardier:...