Joseph A Dillard
MilitaryShot down 18 November 1942 in B-17 #41-24474 'Floozy' while serving as Tail Gunner. Aircraft was on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at La Pallice, France but was hit by flak over St. Nazaire damaging an engine, letting down over the Bay of Biscay, it attacked by FW 190's forcing the pilot to ditch the aircraft into the sea 2 miles of the Ile d'Oussant off the tip of the Brest Peninsula, France. Sgt Dillard was captured POW. MACR 16448.
POW
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Floozy
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 18 November 1942 - 18 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 18-Jun-45. |
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Other Ditched |
Ushant, France | 18 November 1942 | Managed to exit the aircraft after it was ditched into the sea. |
Revisions
Added an association to Stalag 17B per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Lee Cunningham 27-Nov-2014. Added ditching location to description & Event per "losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; made aircraft association within existing data.
Lee Cunningham 4-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MAR) 16448; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces Volume I by Bishop and Hey pp. 46-47 MACR 16448