Robert Ammarell
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner, Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #4230203 'Shack-Up. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
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Roderic Charles Beckham
Military
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #42-30203 'Shack-Up'. Prisoner of War (POW).
Service
People
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Bernard Becker
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Roy Mohr crew. 13 x combat missions, six aborts. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3126 Awards: AM, PH. -
Halleck Hasson
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #4230203 'Shack-Up. ' He escaped with the help of the French Resistance and was returned to England in early 1944 -
Hartzell Jones
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Roy Mohr crew. 13 x combat missions, six aborts. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3126 Awards: AM, PH. -
Roland Marean
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 6 September 1943 in B-17 #4230203 'Shack-Up. ' He escaped with the help of the French Resistance and was returned to England in early 1944. POW -
Roy Mohr
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3126 Awards: PH. -
Elmer Schulz
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 3126 Awards: AM, PH. -
James Shilliday
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Roy Mohr crew. 13 x combat missions, six aborts. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 3126 ... -
Robert Wallin
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Roy Mohr crew. 13 x combat missions, six aborts. Failed to Return (FTR) Stuttgart in B-17 42-30203 'Shack-Up'; Shot down 6-Sep-43. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 3126 Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Units served with
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388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran... -
560th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-30203 Shack Up
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 9/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Smoky Hill 10/6/43; Dow Fd 23/6/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 17/6/43; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Roy H. Mohr, Co-pilot: Elmer F. Schulz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner...
Missions
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VIII Bomber Command 91
6 September 1943
This mission was planned as massive attack of 338 B-17s on the industrial areas of Stuttgart, Germany and would be supported by a formation of 69 B-24s flying a diversion. This would be the first action from the UK for the B-24 Groups that had recently...
Associated Place
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Knettishall
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
Events
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| Born | 27 November 1914 | |
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Chandler, Arizona, United States |
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| Lived in | 1940 | |
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Modesto, Stanislaus County, California |
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| Enlisted | 15 April 1942 | |
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in Los Angeles, California |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | 6 September 1943 – 1945 | |
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Interned at Stalag 9C in Bad Sulza, Saxe-Weimar, and Stalag XVIIB in Austria. NARA WWII POW records : "Returned to Military Control 12 July 1945." |
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| Buried | 2008 | |
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Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, California |
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| Died | 21 June 2008 | |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 October 2018 09:03:58 | ED-BB | Changes to surname, middlename, service number, role, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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Corrected last name : BECKHAM instead of Beckman... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:24:20 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3126 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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