James Bloxom
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. Back injured by opening shock of parachute. Prisoner of War (POW) Stalag XVIIB.
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Clarence F Borchardt
Military
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. Prisoner of War (POW)
Service
People
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Charles Cothran
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner, Top Turret Gunner ; Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943 (MACR 197.) Prisoner of War (POW) Stalag XVIIB. Killed during Death March in 1945. The Army recovered his body from a mass grave in Stein, Austria, and established officially that his death came during a... -
Roy Deadman
Military | Captain | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. Prisoner of War (POW). ... -
Martin Heathcote
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. Prisoner of War (POW) - MACR 197. -
Robert Katz
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943 -
George Kosturko
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. -
Joseph Mutz
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943. Prisoner of War (POW). -
Oliver Robichaud
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down in B-17F #42-5893 'Sad Sax' on 26 July 1943, Prisoner of War (POW). -
Graham Smith
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) in 42-5893 'Sad Sax' 26 July 1943.
Units served with
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95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
336th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-5893
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 29/4/43; Tinker 13/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-M] Bassingbourn 24/5/43; transferred 336BS/95BG [ET-F] Horham 16/6/43; 8m, Missing in Action Hannover 26/7/43 with Oliver Robichaud, Co-pilot:...
Missions
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VIII Bomber Command 77
26 July 1943
The German rubber industry at Hannover, Germany and the U-Boat shipyards at Hamburg, Germany are the primary focus of this mission. In addition, a German ship convoy and targets of opportunity at Wilhelmshaven and Wesermunde are bombed. The first...
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Chicago, Illinois, USA | 1 March 1913 |
| Enlisted | 10 March 1942 | |
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Camp Grant, Illinois |
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| made a Prisoner of War (POW) | 26 July 1943 | |
| Buried | 1972 | |
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Clarence Borchardt rests at the Concordia Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois |
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| Died | 6 March 1972 | |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2018 07:03:11 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, role, biography, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 197 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:06:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 197 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / RE Bloxom/MACR 197 |
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