Frank Chiafari
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3024 'Royal Flush'. Listed as KIA on MACR 16117.
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Robert Bederman
Military
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42-3204, ROYAL FLUSH, 384th Bombardment Group. 546th Squadron
Shot down on his second mission, 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3024 'Royal Flush'
POW
POW Camp: Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 (Work Camps 3324-46 Krumbachstrasse 48011, Work Camp 3368 Munich
Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #42 dated 4 July 1943, P J Ward Crew.
Service
People
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George Janicek
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3024 'Royal Flush'. Killed in Action (KIA). -
Bert Landrum
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3024 'Royal Flush'. ... -
Walter Mondo
Military | Second Lieutenant | Copilot | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down on his second mission, 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3204. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR# 16117 Asigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #42 dated 4 July 1943, P J Ward Crew. -
P Ward
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down on his second mission, 25 July 1943 in B-17 #42-3024 'Royal Flush'. MACR# 16117 Prisoner of War. POW Camp: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser)
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... -
544th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-3024 ROYAL FLUSH
B-17 Flying Fortress
Assigned to the 544th Bombardment Squadron, squadron code SU-K, 384th Bombardment Group, Morrison Army Air Field, Florida on 13 March 1943, Moved to Grafton Underwood, Station 106, UK on 25 May 1943 and subsequently transferred to the 546th Bombardment...
Missions
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VIII Bomber Command 76
25 July 1943
This mission was composed of three elements. The primary targets were the diesel engine works at Hamburg, Germany; the shipyards at Kiel, Germany and the aircraft industries at Warnemude, Germany, but weather frustrated the effort. The first element...
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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| POW | Hamburg, Germany | 25 July 1943 |
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Shot Down |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 25 January 2015 02:35:10 | bombercommand | Changes to firstname, service number, biography, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations, mission associations and media associations |
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384thbombgroup.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:21:35 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor |
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