Walter L Wynn

Military

Shot down 20 December 1942 in B-17 41-24495 'Rose O'Day' while serving as Tail Gunner. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

Connections

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Rose O Day
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

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Prisoner of War (POW)

Krems an der Donau, Austria 20 December 1942 The National Archives Records Administration (NARA) has no POW record on this airman. IF he was a POW he was probably held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. The camp was liberated by the US Army in late April 1945, but it may have taken some time before he was officially Returned to Military Control (RMC). He probably was evacuated to the US in June 1945.

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added location to POW event.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added crew position to biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added POW event per my own research; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within the existing website data.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55