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.
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Military
Shot down 20 December 1943 in B-17 #42-39764 'Santa Anna'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated on 3-Feb-1942 at Pendleton Field, Oregon. They assembled at Gowen Field, Idaho on 11-February 1942 where it conducted flight training until 12-Jun-1942. The Group then moved to Alamogordo Field, New...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 25/8/43; Scott 16/9/43; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-B] Molesworth 18/10/43; transferred 360BS [PU- ]; 6m Missing in Action Bremen 20/12/43 with Alexander Alex, Navigator: Nick Goldschmidt, Bombardier: Albt Farrar, Flight engineer/top...
20 December 1943
The port area of Bremen is the target for 546 heavy bombers. The total includes 12 PFF-equipped B-17s from 482BG. All 12 of these are effective on the target and 11 are damaged. The bomber gunners of this element claim 1-1-0 (this total included with...
Military site : airfield
Molesworth was one of the early stations used by the Eighth Air Force in the UK, first occupied by the 15th Bomb Squadron’s Douglas Bostons in June 1942. Built in 1940 and extended and improved in 1942, Molesworth is most associated with the 303rd...
Other location
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Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 20 December 1943 |
Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 |
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04 December 2020 17:30:59 | jmoore43 | Changes to unit associations and mission associations |
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Added connections to the 8th AF and to 8th AF mission #159 for 20 Dec1943. |
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04 December 2020 17:29:14 | jmoore43 | Changes to events and place associations |
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Added a connection to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
26 March 2020 02:24:27 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:16:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1706 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |