Porfirio D Garcia
MilitaryShot down on 6 September 1943 in B-17F 42-30007. Plane ditched in Channel. Returned to Base.
Shot down on 5-November-1943 in B17G 42-39831 while serving as Radio Operator. Aircraft shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed near Vierlingsbeek, Holland. He baled out and was captured.
POW
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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
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 5 November 1943
- Date: 6 September 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 5 November 1943 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 21-Jul-45. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 27-Nov-2014. Added 42-39831 to description. MACR 1383.
Lee Cunningham 4-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 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 / MACR 1383 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Roll of Honor; MACR 1383, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop & Hey p. 268