George Henry Loring
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 57320 - George H Loring, 95BG.
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Regensburg in B-17 42-3194 'Little Hill' 17-Aug-43; shot down by flak & fighter attacks, crashed Santa Margherita. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 400
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-734084
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Little Hell
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Prescott, AZ | 26 March 1919 | Son of George V. and Henrietta [Towles] Loring. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 17 August 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
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Died |
Glendale, AZ | 2 December 1996 | |
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Buried |
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ | 5 December 1996 | National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona |
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Based |
Horham | 17 August 1943 | Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Added POW Camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Copied the "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.
Comments on Find a grave "was a B-17 navigator during WWII, assigned to 95th BG 334th BS - POW on 17 aug 1943, mission to Schweinfurt, flying aboard 42-3194 "Little Hell""
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php
