Joseph Edwin Ford

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed into Channel on 6/20/44 in B-17 Pride of the Yanks #4232004 Prisoner of War (POW)



WW II VM/ AM/ GC/ PH/ EAME

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Units served with

The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.

388th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-32004

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron

Places

Stalag Luft IV

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Starkville, Mississippi 17 July 1920

Revisions

Date
ContributorDouglas P
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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self /MACR 5921