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Joseph A Barrett

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Assigned to the 384th BG 545th BS on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #48 dated 13 July 1943, Drewry Fry Wofford Crew. 3 combat missions.
Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-3230 'YANKEE POWERHOUSE II' Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 393
POW Camp: Stalag 17 B.
POW

Service

People

  • Paul Carter

    Military | Technical Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
    Assigned to the 384th BG 545th BS on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #48 dated 13 July 1943, D Wofford Crew. ...

  • Drewry Wofford

    Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
    Assigned to the 384th BG 545th BS on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #48 dated 13 July 1943, as crew pilot. 4 combat missions. Shot down 17 August 1943 in B-17 42-3230 'YANKEE POWERHOUSE II' Prisoner of War (POW). POW

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Units served with

  • 384th Bomb Group

    384th Bomb Group

    Group
    The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...

  • 545th Bomb Squadron

    545th Bomb Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-3230 Yankee Powerhouse / Mary Kathleen

    B-17 Flying Fortress
    Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-U] Grafton Underwood 29/5/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Drewry Wofford, Co-pilot: Bob Palton, Navigator: Malcolm McDonald, Bombardier: George Kyriakopoulous, Flight...

Missions

  • VIII Bomber Command 84

    17 August 1943
    The mission flown on 17-Aug-43, the 1st anniversary of the 1st mission flown by the 8th Air Force, is probably the most written about mission of the war. This is the famous Schweinfurt/Regensburg mission on which 60 B-17s are lost. It has been dubbed ...

Associated Place

  • Grafton Underwood

    Military site : airfield
    Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...

Events

Event Location Date
Prisoner of war 17 August 1943
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
11095405
Highest rank
Staff Sergeant
Role/job
Tail Gunner
Awards
Not yet known

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
22 February 2021 13:50:21 grinnin Changes to media associations
Sources

From his son's collection
Date Contributor Update
18 September 2018 13:37:30 bombercommand Changes to media associations
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https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=212
Date Contributor Update
18 September 2018 13:35:30 bombercommand Changes to unit associations and media associations
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https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=212
Date Contributor Update
01 September 2018 21:12:10 grinnin Changes to role, biography and media associations
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His son
Date Contributor Update
03 November 2017 14:45:39 general ira snapsorter Changes to biography and events
Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=212;
- MACR 293 ;
- Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Date Contributor Update
28 February 2015 04:18:36 bombercommand Changes to media associations
Sources

3384thbombgroup.com
Date Contributor Update
16 February 2015 00:46:10 bombercommand Changes to service number, biography, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

384thbombgroup.com
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:17:03 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 293, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=b...

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