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Regis L McDonell

Military

Shot down 3 September 1943 in B-17 #4229725. Prisoner of War (POW).

POW

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Units served with

Three B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group drop their bomb loads as flak bursts around them.

407th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

The insignia of the 92nd Bomb Group.

92nd Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-29725

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Hi-Lo Jack
Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Alconbury airfield, looking east. The technical site is at the top, the bomb dump is on the left, 9 May 1944. Photograph taken by 13th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group USAAF, sortie number US/7GR/LOC334. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Alconbury

Site type: Airfield

Stalag XVII-B

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Revisions

Date7 Mar 2018 14:33:11

ContributorLucy May

Changes

Sources

http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&rec=92571

Date27 Sep 2014 18:22:17

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 659