Shot down by fighters near the IP and crashed N of Abbeville, FR on a mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR on 2 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-31776 'Maggie's Drawers'. Prisoner of War (POW). Records indicate that Frank flew all his missions with Lt. Seaman as pilot: #58 (Paris), #59 (Emden), #60 (Kiel), #64 (Pas de Calais), #65 (Ludwigshafen), #66 (Bordeaux), # 68 (Tours), #73 (Frankfurt), #76 (Wilhelmshaven), #80 (Frankfurt), #81 (Leipzig), #85 (Augsburg), #86 (Frankfurt). Following his capture, and after his stay at the Frankfurt interrogation center, he spent time at Stalag Luft VI and then Stalag Luft IV (first in Lager A and later in Lager D). In early February of 1945, he was among the last group to leave Luft IV on the infamous ÒBlack March. Ó Frank fell seriously ill on the march, was left behind, and was moved to other locations, to include Camp 357 and Camp 2-E. He was liberated just outside Camp 2-E around the first of May 1945.



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