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.
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Joseph A Barrett
Military
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Paul "Nick" Carter of the 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.
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545th Bombardment Squadron Patch
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
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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
Units served with
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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
Squadron
Aircraft
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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
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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
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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 |
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| Prisoner of war | 17 August 1943 |
Revisions
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| 18 September 2018 13:37:30 | bombercommand | Changes to media associations |
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https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=212 |
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| 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 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 September 2018 21:12:10 | grinnin | Changes to role, biography and media associations |
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His son |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 03 November 2017 14:45:39 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 February 2015 04:18:36 | bombercommand | Changes to media associations |
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3384thbombgroup.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 16 February 2015 00:46:10 | bombercommand | Changes to service number, biography, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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384thbombgroup.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:17:03 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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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