Joseph Gerard Keenan

Military
media-24438.jpeg UPL 24438 Crew members of Bomb' N Belle :
Back, left to right : Joseph Keenan; Robert Sasse, Edward Frost and Raymond McCarthy.
Front, left to right : Eugene Szulczewski, Paul Dickerson, Richard Kindig (not Kindic !) and Andrew Marcin (not Marsin !) Hutchinson & Cortright

Corrected 2 names in the crew photo
MACR 4938

Object Number - UPL 24438 - Crew members of Bomb' N Belle : Back, left to right : Joseph Keenan; Robert Sasse, Edward Frost and Raymond McCarthy. Front, left to right : Eugene...

Shot down 20 May 1944 in B-17 #42-37864. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 447th Bomb Group.

447th Bomb Group

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

People

Paul Douglas Dickerson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35201269
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Edward Harold Frost

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16037453 at enlistment, then O-568222
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Richard Joseph Kindig

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35549145
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Andrew Anthony Marcin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33261086
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Raymond Francis McCarthy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16089784
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

42-3487

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Bombn Belle
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 349th Bomb Squadron 709th Bomb Squadron 812th Bomb Squadron

42-37864

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Marty
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

New York City, New York 17 October 1921

Enlisted

26 February 1943 Nashville Air Corps Facilities, Nashville, Tennessee

Other

Bailed out

20 May 1944 of B-17 #42-37864 over Holland, landed in Belgium

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

20 May 1944 captured, interned at Stalag Luft 3 Sagan/Zagan, Poland. Liberated by US troops at Stalag 7A Moosburg, Germany

Died

16 July 2007 West Islip, New York
North East, Erie County, Pennsylvania (student at St Marys College)

Revisions

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Sources

MACR 4938
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft Card
NARA WWII POW records
Veterans Affairs BIRLS death File

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4938

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Object number: UPL 24438 - Crew members of Bomb' N Belle : Back, left to...