Leo O Frazier
MilitaryJoined squad 3 August 1942. On January 3, 1943 while serving as Navigator on B-24D 41-23808 'Texan' the aircraft crash-landed in a field near Aberporth airfield, Cardiganshire, returning from target U/B yards (submarine) at St. Nazaire, France. Fuel shortage caused the crash. 11RTD No MACR issued.
Transferred to 67th BS. Shot down 8 March 1943 in B-24 41-23988 [NB:E] 'Emmy Lou', 44BG/67BS while serving as Navigator. Prisoner of War (POW) as only survivor of a lead plane attacked by multiple German fighters while on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France
POW
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 8 March 1943
- Date: 3 January 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
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Other Returned to Duty (RTD) |
Aberporth, Ceredigion, UK | 3 January 1943 | On 3-Jan-43 while serving on B-24D 41-23808 'Texan' as Navigator the aircraft made a crash-landing in a field near Aberporth airfield, Cardiganshire when aircraft ran out of fuel on return from a mission to St. Nazaire, France. He was uninjured and Returned to Duty (RTD) |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Moosburg, Germany | 8 March 1943 - 29 May 1945 | Held at Stalag 7A, Moosburg, Bavaria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 29-May-45. |
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Born |
Oakley, Utah |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 31-Jul-2015. Added Decoration and POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database
Lee Cunningham 31-Jan-2015. Added decoration per POW record; Added RTD event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; made connection to Place, 2 Aircraft and 2 Missions within existing website data; edited Biography for chronological order and crew position.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Webb Todd, MACR 4401, Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey pp. 61-62, 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Lundy pp. 41, 50, 58-59 The 44th BG in WWII by MacKay and Adams pp.27, 32.