9th Air Force
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B-26 Marauder
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. 7 x POW, 1 x KIA. MACR 12607.
Group
The 387th Bomb Group flew just under thirty missions with the Eighth Air Force before being transferred to the Ninth Air Force in October 1943. The Group remained at Chipping Ongar, Essex after being reassigned and continued to hit targets in France....
Squadron
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Flight engineer | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. 47 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Master Sergeant | Radio operator | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Captain | Gee Operator | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | First Lieutenant | Bomber pilot | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: DFC, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail gunner | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-pilot | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. His chute caught on the protruding loft-loading beam at a barn’s peak. As the American flyer dangled from...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 387th Bomb Group
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12607.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military site : airfield
The air base was constructed by the 831st Engineer Battalion (Aviation) in late August 1942. The 387th Bomb Group were the only American group to be based there, flying B-26 Marauders in strategic missions over France, first for the Eighth and then for...
Military site : airfield
Planned as a secret, emergency airfield, Stoney Cross was developed during 1942-43 as an advance base for both fighters and bombers. Occupied by the RAF from January 1943, before construction was complete, the station had eventually three concrete...
Event | Location | Date |
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Manufactured | Offutt AFB, NE, USA | 1944 |
Built at Martins. |
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Assigned | Chipping Ongar, Ongar CM5, UK | 1944 |
Assigned to 559BS, 387BG, 9AF USAAF. |
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Failed to Return (FTR) | 56727 Mayen, Germany | 24 February 1945 |
Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Mayen. Hit by flak in target area, engine ablaze, baled out successfully. 7 x POW, 1 x KIA. MACR 12607. |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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24 August 2017 11:25:38 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmsn.asp?SN=42-96092&Submit6=Go |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:41:09 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 12607 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |