George N Dillard
MilitaryAssigned to B-17F 41-24602 [PU-A] "Yardbird", 303BG/360BS on 10-Oct-42 at Battle Creek, Michigan as a Ball Turret Gunner and arrived with that aircraft at Molesworth, UK on 16-Oct-42. He was attached to "Yardbird" for 2 operations (1 of which was aborted) and then early in Decemebr 1942 re was reassigned as the Ball Turret Gunner of B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund". Participated in 3 Operations (1 was aborted) See Biography events.
Shot down 12 December 1942 in B-17 41-24585 'Wulfe Hund' while serving as Ball Turret Gunner. Prisoner of War (POW). He tried to evade capture but was captured on Christmas Day at the railroad station at Dijon, France.
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 17 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Aircraft |
Battle Creek, MI, USA | 10 October 1942 | Assigned as a Ball Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24602 "Yardbird", 303BG/360BS at Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan. |
Other Transfer to Another Aircraft |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 12 October 1942 | Transferred from B-17F 41-24602 "Yardbird", 303BG/360BS to B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303BG/360BS as a Ball Turret Gunner. Date approximate. |
Other Arrived at Station |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 16 October 1942 | Arrived on B-17F 42-24602 "Yardbird", 303BG/360BS at Molesworth, UK. |
Other Mission #1, SGT George N. Dillard w/ B-17F 41-24602, 303BG/360BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 17 November 1942 | Served as Ball Turret Gunner on B-27F 41-24602 "Yardbird" on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #2, SGT George N. Dillard w/ B-17F 41-24602, 303BG/360BS - Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 18 November 1942 | Assigned as Ball Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24602 "Yardbird" on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France, but mechanical difficulties force the pilot to abort the mission. |
Other Evasion Attempt |
Dijon, France | 12 December 1942 - 25 December 1942 | SGT Dillard managed to evade capture for 13 days, but was finally apprehended by the Gestapo at the railroad station at Dijon, France. |
Other Mission #3, SGT George N. Dillard w/ B-17F 41-24585, 303BG/360BS |
Rouen, France | 12 December 1942 | Served as Ball Turret Gunner on B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe Hund", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France. The pilot crashlanded the battle damaged aircraft on a filed in France. SGT Dillard managed to evade capture for 13 days but was eventually captured as a Prisoner of War. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 25 December 1942 - 12 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 12-Jun-45. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 8-Dec-2015. Corrected POW capture date per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, John W. Farrar crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-farrar.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 303BG webiste, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 12-Dec-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Transfer to another Aircrat event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, John W' Farrar crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-farrar.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Transfer to another Aircrat event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, John W' Farrar crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-farrar.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 18-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/002.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 17-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/001.pdf
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Arrived at Station event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur. Historian, John W. Farrar crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-farrar.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added Assigned to Aircraft event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur. Historian, John W. Farrar crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-360-farrar.html
Lee Cunningham 7-Dec-2015. Added B-17F 41-24602 association to Summary Description and made connection to Place, Aircraft and Missions pere 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, http://www.303rdbg.com/
Lee Cunningham 10-Nov-2014. "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 53