Glenn Rojohn
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 100th Bomb Group
Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Piggy-back pilot, Hamburg mission. Shot down 31-Dec-44 in B-17 42-31987. 'The Little Skipper' Prisoner of War (POW).
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James Ralton Shirley
Military
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T/Sgt James Ralton Shirley, 100BG
Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Wilhelmshaven Mid air collision near Rustringen in B-17 42-31987 'the Little Skipper' Baled out Prisoner of War (POW) 31-Dec-44. MACR 11359.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME, UN and Korean medals.
James died in 1981, as reported in the Fall 1990 edition of 'Splasher Six'
Service
People
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
100th Bomb Group
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many... -
350th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-31987 'Shilaylee' 'The Little Skipper'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Kearney 22/1/44; Romulus 23/2/44; Grenier 28/2/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-A] Thorpe Abbotts 10/3/44; 418BS [LD-D]; Missing in Action Misburg 31/12/44 with Glen Rojohn, Co-pilot: Bill Leek, Navigator: Bob Washington,...
Missions
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772
31 December 1944
Associated Place
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Thorpe Abbotts
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group... -
Stalag Luft IV
Other location
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Dulag Luft 12
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Savonia County, GA | 8 November 1920 |
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Son of W C Shirley. |
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| Lived in | Westminster, South Carolina, USA | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Fort Jackson Blvd, Columbia, SC, USA | 6 February 1943 |
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Fort Jackson |
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| Based | Thorpe Abbotts | 1944 – 31 December 1944 |
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Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | 78-220 Tychowo, Poland | 31 December 1944 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW).Stalag Luft IV. |
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| Baled out | Kleingärtnerverein Rüstringen e.V., Neuengrodener Weg 50, 26386 Wilhelmshaven, Germany | 31 December 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Wilhelmshaven Mid air collision near Rustringen in B-17 42-31987 'the Little Skipper' Baled out Prisoner of War (POW) 31-Dec-44. MACR 11359. |
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| Discharged USAAF | 28 November 1945 | |
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Honourable discharge. |
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| Died | 24 July 1981 | |
| Buried | Greenwood Cemetery Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL | 27 July 1981 |
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Greenwood Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 19 November 2020 11:43:19 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards, events, person associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/682910116 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 19 November 2020 10:58:15 | Helen | Changes to biography |
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'Splasher Six' |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 15 October 2017 15:20:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and mission associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/88227161-james-r-shirley |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:14:53 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11550 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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