Leroy Ellsworth Goswick

Military

Shot down by flak and crashed E of Abbeville, FR during an SOE mission to France on 2/3 Mar 1944 in B-24D 42-63792. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 36th Bomb Squadron (Radar Counter Measures).

36th Bomb Squadron

  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
Lieutenant John C "Red" Morgan of the 482nd Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Lt Red Morgan, Cong, Med of Hon.'

482nd Bomb Group

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

801st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-63792

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 482nd Bomb Group 801st Bomb Group 36th 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

Other

Prisoner of War

2 March 1944

Born

Youngwood, Pennsylvania

Revisions

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https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&tf=F&q=ler…;
MACR 3436 - https://www.fold3.com/image/28645684;
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=2&cat=all&tf…;
http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Downloads.htm;
Combat Sup (p538), Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces

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801st BG Roster, http://www.801492.org/MainMenu.htm / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia