Charles William Roberson

Military

media-21874.jpeg UPL 21874 Charles W. Roberson's POW card at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he and others arrived on the 20 August 1944 convoy from Paris. Buchenwald was administered by the Gestapo and after the discovery of this breach of the Geneva Convention, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe, ordered the airmen to be put in a camp for Prisoners of War. Charles Roberson and the others left Buchenwald on 19 October 1944.

NARA Captured German Reports - BUCHENWALD POW cards

Object Number - UPL 21874 - Charles W. Roberson's POW card at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he and others arrived on the 20 August 1944 convoy from Paris. Buchenwald...

Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #42-31346 'Shack Rabbit.' Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 4355.

POW

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Units served with

384th Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

544th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.

James Asa Atkins

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 35666456
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Robert Harold Brown

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-521326
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot, Co-Pilot

Walter Lewis Harvey

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-672350
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Cornelius Patrick McManus

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 11057514
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Richard Eugene Rader

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-734835
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

42-31346

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Shack Rabbit
Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

Missions

315

Date: 24 April 1944

Places

Buchenwald

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald

Grafton Underwood

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Grafton Undermud

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Mt Carmel, IL 62863, USA	14 March 1919
Enlisted	Peoria, IL, USA	3 January 1942	Residence: Coles County, Illinois Private, Air Corps
Other Asssigned	Grafton Underwood, Kettering, Northamptonshire NN14, UK	24 March 1944 - 24 April 1944	Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders & 65 dated 24 March 1944, Robert Harold Brown Crew, 2 combat missions.
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Żagań, Poland	24 April 1944 - 29 April 1945	Initially evaded. Caught in an infiltration of the evasion network and arrested in an appartment Rue de Sebastopol in Paris on 5 August 1944. Like more than 150 Allied airmen, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. All were released from there on order of Marshall Goering on 19 October 1944. Sent to Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia. Force-marched from there at the end of January 1945, he ended up in Stalag 7A Moosburg. Liberated there byGen. George Patton's troops on 29 April 1945.
Died	Warrenton, MO, USA	25 October 2005	Burial: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay St. Louis County Missouri, USA