Crawford Elmer Hicks
Militarycrawford collection
10 missions during May 1944. Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42-31725 'Casa de Embriagos'. Prisoner of War (POW).
AM/ POW
Connections
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38319820
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-691348
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39408813
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39558534
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36301883
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky, USA | 10 February 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Louisville, Kentucky, USA | 4 April 1942 | Bowman Field |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 30 May 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11 Released by Gen Patton at Mooseburg, Germany. |
Died |
Warner Robins, Houston County, Georgia, USA | 2 October 2021 | (aged 100) |
Buried |
Andersonville National Historic Site, Macon County, Georgia, USA | Andersonville National Cemetery |
Revisions
Added Died and Buried events per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 232726337.
Updated Born event per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 232726337.
SOURCE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232726337/crawford-elmer-hicks
Added a connection to Mission 332 to Pas de Calais, Fr per "Prisoner of War Memoirs of Crawford E. Hicks" page 186.
Added a connection to the Mission (380) to Oschersleben, Ger. per MACR 5236.
Added an Enlisted event per "U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946" at Ancestry.com.
Added awards listed in book "Prisoner Of War" by Crawford E. Hicks, Lt. Col. Ret.
Added the date his POW camp was liberated by Gen. Patton's troops to the POW event.
Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" for readability.
Added connections to crew members per info listed for A/C 42-31725.
Ollie E Davis-Hicks, via American Air Museum Memory Book Correspondence.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5236 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / self, MACR 5236