Alvah Allen | American Air Museum in Britain

Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896.

Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

Service

Morris Guttu

Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896. ...

8th Air Force

Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars

Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
323rd Bomb Squadron

Squadron

42-29740 Tondelayo

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43 - original group ship with 95th BG; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-R] RAF Alconbury; force landed Alconbury after sustaining NBD with Don Eastling 19/5/43; transferred to 337BS/96BG [AW-G]...

Bassingbourn

Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
Stalag Luft I

Other location

Event	Location	Date
Born	Kenne, New Hampshire, USA	25 October 1918
Enlisted	Manchester, NH, USA	28 March 1941
Based	Bassingbourn	1943 – 9 October 1943
Assigned to 323BS, 91BG, 8AF USAAF.
Prisoner of War (POW)	Barth, Germany	9 October 1943 – May 1945
Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
Shot down	Denmark	9 October 1943
Failed to Return (FTR) Anklam, Germany. Shot down 9-Oct-43 in B-17 42-29740. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 896.
Died	Keene, NH, USA	2 December 1995

Date	Contributor	Update
12 February 2018 10:27:59	Al_Skiff	Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations and place associations
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/28612528?terms=42-29740 https://www.fold3.com/record/85462751-alvah-allen https://www.fold3.com/record/114973-alvah-allen https://www.fold3.com/page/528375461-alvah-allen-1918/facts https://www.fold3.com/record/528375461-alvah-allen-1918 https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=385129
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:03:34	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 896 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database