Marvin H Brown
MilitaryAssigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Saaler Bay. Hit by flak strafing enemy aerodrome belly landed in tidal water near Hussum on 19-May-44 in P-38 42-104402. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5008.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME, Purple Heart.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 384th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Honington
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
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3 December 1941 | Fort Sill Oklahoma | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
19 May 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. | |
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19 May 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Saaler Bay. Hit by flak strafing enemy aerodrome belly landed near Dreisprung on 19-May-44 in P-38 42-104402. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5008. | |
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19 May 1944 | Assigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Am Grandson. I have all his records, medals, training logs, flght reports, letters from him to my grandmother while in captivity, a journal he kept while at Stalag Luft 3 and dogtags (both US Army Air Core and German POW).
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5008 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list