George Derr Mitchell
MilitaryGeorge Mitchell was a Radio Operator in the 463rd Bomb Group / 775th Bomb Squadron (15th Air Force), in Italy. He was on board B-17 # 42-31685 on the 10 May 1944 mission to the Wiener Neustadt aircraft factory, Austria. Made a Prisoner of War (POW) - Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 4660.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: 32719960
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: 38396309
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Service Numbers: O-750952
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: 19005031 and O-751540
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: 12120237 and O-814293
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Foggia Satellite #1, San Nicola-d'Arpi
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
New York State, United States | 30 December 1920 | the son of George P. Mitchell |
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Enlisted |
Newark, New Jersey, United States | 10 November 1942 | |
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Other Made Prisoner of War (POW) |
near Sieding-Stixenstein, Austria | 10 May 1944 | Bailed out of the flaming plane and was captured, around noon the day of the crash, near Sieding |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Poland | 10 May 1944 | NARA WWII POW records : “POW in Germany - camp ?"-"Returned to Military Control 12 June 1945”... Mitchell's own recollections :"We (prisoners) were put on a train, which took us to Gross Tychow (Tychowo, Poland), where the POW camp was - Stalag Luft 4. I was a prisoner until 18 or 20 April 1945. We were liberated on the road walking from a camp in Poland on the Polish-German border to a camp in Germany near the French border." (As told to Kay Hughes and Harold E. Dwyer, 2006.) |
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Died |
Wheelock Terrace, Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire | 6 February 2007 | |
| Newark, New Jersey, United States | |||
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Buried |
St Peter’s Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States |
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Sources
MACR 4660
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
"Searching for Stanley - Unforgotten Hero of World War II", by Kay Hughes, niece and Harold E. Dwyer, brother, of Pilot Stanley N. Dwyer (iUniverse books - 2011)
Contacts with the Stanley Dwyer family.