Joseph A Levasseur

Military
media-43022.jpeg UPL 43022 Richard H. Read Crew
95th BG
Shot down on 6 March 1944

Standing Left to Right: Joseph A.G. Levasseur (BTG). William A. Parry (FE), Henry R. Doudican (TG), Ralph C. Brinson (WG), Harold R. Goodwin (R/O)

Kneeling Left to Right: Richard H. Read (P), Clinton K. Kemper (CP), Samuel Blum (N), Joseph M. Gosselin (B)

Not in photo: Earl V. Moye (WG) 466th Bomb Group collection

Marc Ferrero

Object Number - UPL 43022 - Richard H. Read Crew 95th BG Shot down on 6 March 1944 Standing Left to Right: Joseph A.G. Levasseur (BTG). William A. Parry (FE), Henry R....

Shot down by fighters near Quakenbruck on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-39793. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-804505
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Shot Down/Captured

Goldenstedter Heide, Germany 6 March 1944

Other

POW

Tychowo, Poland 15 March 1944 Stalag Luft IV Dates are approximate

Born

Maine

Enlisted

Enlisted

Revisions

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Added an association to Stalag Luft IV .

Date
Contributorjmoore43
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Removed dup enlisted events.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2985, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces

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