Donald Wayne Huffer
Military
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UPL 56147
S/Sgt Earle F. Bell
Assigned to 351BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin 24-May-44 in in B-17 42-31306 'Nelson King'; shot down by fighters, crashed Ostprignitz. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5165
Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-813794
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Nelson King
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Hibbing, MN | 19 February 1919 | Son of John Joseph and Marie A [Bejeault] Huffer. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 24 May 1944 - 27 January 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Moosburg, Germany | 27 January 1945 - 29 April 1945 | Forced march from Stalag Luft III to Stalag VIIa. |
Died |
Franklin, WI | 27 November 2005 | |
Buried |
Saint Adalberts Cemetery Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI | Saint Adalberts Cemetery Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin | |
Based |
Thorpe Abbotts | 24 May 1944 | Assigned to 351BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
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Changes
Sources
100th Bomb Group Foundation Directory, 2000 - 2001; MACR 5165 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5165 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database