Custis Roe Green Jr

Military

Assigned to 570BS, 390BG, 8AF USAAF. 12 x combat missions*. Failed to Return (FTR) Merseburg in B-17 42-97407 'Asterisk' 30-Nov-44; mid air collision with B-17 44-8080 Thrown from A/C with chute at time of collision. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 11136



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.



* - Cologne 15-Oct-44, Cologne 16-Oct-44, Kassel, Hamm, Weisbaden, Langerwehe, Saarbrucken, Geisen, Merseburg [Recalled], Saarbrucken, Mannheim, Merseburg 30-Nov-44.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 390th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19117070 / O-768655
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

B-17 Flying Fortresses (serial number 43-38521), (DI-G, serial number 42-31974), (DI-V, serial number 42-97407) and (serial number 42-102972) of the 390th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '390BG.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The As-Te-Risk
  • Unit: 1st Strategic Air Depot 390th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron 570th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 30 November 1944
  • Date: 16 October 1944
The flak damaged nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 398th Bomb Group. Printed caption on reverse: '54600 AC- England- 1st lt Lawrence M De Lancey, Corvallis, Oregon, landed this B-17 safely after its nose was literally shot away by flak over Cologne, Germany. Please Credit: Official US Air Force Photo.' Printed caption on image: 'This B-17 landed safely after losing its nose to flak. US AAF Photo.' Handwritten caption on reverse: '43-38172 of 398th BG.'
  • Date: 15 October 1944

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Casper, WY 14 July 1922 Son of Custis Roe Snr and Dorothy Prudence [Ustick] Green.

Enlisted

Denver, CO 25 June 1942

Other

Baled Out POW

Flur Oberkotzau, Germany 30 November 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Merseburg in B-17 42-97407 'Asterisk' 30-Nov-44; mid air collision with B-17 44-8080 Thrown from A/C with chute at time of collision. POW. MACR 11136

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 30 November 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Died

Hilo, Hawaii 27 February 2018

Other

Next of Kin

La Junta, Colorado Wife Virginia R 'Patty' [Jones] Green, La Junta, Colorado

Based

Framlingham 30 November 1944 Assigned to 570BS, 390BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, OR Willamette National Cemetery Portland, Multnomah County, OR

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11136