Bernard Martin Blaum
MilitaryAssigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to return from Graypea mission (chaff dispensing) mission to Hamburg, Germany in Mosquito RF996, 20-Mar-45. Suffered fuel vapour lock to both engines. Baled out over Fohr, Germany Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13185
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15133874 / O-722149
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Mosquito
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Wilkes Barre, Luzerne Couny, PA | 24 October 1920 | Son of Louis William and Caroline [Anstett] Blaum. |
Enlisted |
Wilkes Barre, PA | 12 December 1942 | Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania |
Other Baled out POW |
Fohr, Germany | 20 March 1945 | Failed to return from Graypea mission to Germany in Mosquito RF996, 20-Mar-45; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13185 |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 20 March 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Held at Stalag Luft I. |
Buried |
Saint Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA | 24 March 1991 | Saint Mary's Cemetery Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
Died |
Cherry Hill, NJ | 31 March 1991 | |
Based |
Watton | 20 March 1945 | Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
Combat Chronology, Unit History; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 13, 71, 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia