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Sgt Hubert P Miller ground crew on B-17 'Sack Time'.
Hubert Altvater was a Co-Pilot in the 386th Bomb Group. He was on B-26 # 42-96184 on his 64th mission on 6 August 1944 when it was hit by Flak and crashed into the sea off Trouville-sur-Mer, France. Gunner Franklin Swanson was killed and the five others, including 1st Lt Altvater, were made Prisoners of War (POW) - Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 7875.
Military | Captain | Pilot | 386th Bomb Group
Captain Walter Payne was a Pilot in the 386th Bomb Group. He was piloting B-26 # 42-96184 on his 64th mission on 6 August 1944 when it was hit by Flak and crashed into the sea off Trouville-sur-Mer, France. Gunner Franklin Swanson was killed and the...
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier/Navigator | 386th Bomb Group
Edward Roggenkamp was a Bombardier/Navigator in the 386th Bomb Group. He was on board B-26 # 42-96184 on his 64th mission 6 August 1944 when it was hit by Flak and crashed into the sea off Trouville-sur-Mer, France. Gunner Franklin Swanson was killed...
Military | Corporal | Armorer Gunner | 386th Bomb Group
William Salyer was an Armorer Gunner in the 386th Bomb Group. An experienced gunner who had flown on dozens of missions with the Robert Fry crew, Salyer was on his first mission with the crew of Lt Payne, replacing the regular gunner who had completed...
Military | Sergeant | Armorer Gunner | 386th Bomb Group
Franklin Swanson was an Armorer Gunner in the 386th Bomb Group. An experienced gunner who had flown on dozens of missions with the Robert Fry crew, Swanson was on his first mission with the crew of Lt Payne, replacing the regular gunner who had...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator/ Mechanical Gunner | 386th Bomb Group
Joseph Weaver was on a local training flight on board B-26 #41-17961 on 27 December 1943. Flown by Lt Robert C. Fry, the plane was involved in a landing accident at Froome airfield - Station 236, near Antrim, Northern Ireland. Weaver and four others...
Group
The 386th Bomb Group flew B-26 Marauders for the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. Whilst with the Eighth, the Group developed the formation release procedure for the B-26 on missions that targeted aerodromes, marshalling yards and V-weapon sites along the...
Squadron
B-26 Marauder
42-96184 was on its second mission of the day on 6 August 1944. The target were fuel dumps near the Forêt d'Andainne, East of Domfront, Calvados, France. Hit by 88mm Flak shell above Le Havre, causing fire in the right engine. Three parachutes were...
Military site : airfield
The airfield, two miles north-west of Great Dunmow, was built in 1942-1943 by the US Army's 818th Engineer Battalion (Aviation), alongside British contractors. B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group moved in in September 1943, and in October the Group...
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| Born | Winfield, Kansas, United States | 23 October 1921 |
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the son of Arnold Hugh and Amelia (Miller) Altvater |
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| Lived in | Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States | 1942 |
| Enlisted | Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States | 28 April 1942 |
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as a Private in the Air Corps |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Barth, Germany | 6 August 1944 – May 1945 |
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Landed in parachute in a mine field in a sandbank on the seashore near Trouville-sur-Mer, France. Interned at Stalag Luft 1- North 2 Compound in Barth, Germany. NARA WWII POW records : “Returned to Allied Military control 18/7/1945.” |
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| Died | Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States | 30 January 2001 |
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| 08 June 2016 15:14:39 | ED-BB | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nickname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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MACR 7875 |
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