Edward Ralph Holler
Military384th BG - 544th BS
Back L-R: Lt. John Fallon (N), Lt. Jack K. Larsen (P), Lt Warren Donovan (CP), Lt. Edward Murray (B)
Front L-R: Sgt. Robert Cole (RO), Sgt. John Moore (TG), Sgt. Karl Barnes (FE), Sgt. Edward Simon (WG), Sgt. Edward Holler (WG), Sgt. Alton Haverlah (BT)
B-17F #42-29717 'Mr. Five By Five' was last seen with one engine feathered and heading towards Switzerland on a mission to Stuttgart, GR on 25 Feb 1944. Prisoner of War (POW).
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: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-802583
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Stella
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Mr Five by Five
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Patches : The Spotted Cow
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 25 February 1944
- Date: 24 February 1944
- Date: 21 February 1944
- Date: 20 February 1944
- Date: 3 February 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Milwaukee County, WI | 23 October 1923 | |
Milwaukee, WI | 30 June 1942 | 507 East Dover | |
Enlisted |
Milwaukee, WI | 13 January 1943 | |
Other 384th BG Combat Tour |
Grafton Underwood Airfield, UK | 29 November 1943 - 25 February 1944 | Shot down on his 11th combat mission |
Other POW |
Tychowo, Poland | 1 March 1944 | Stalag Luft IV |
Died |
Fayetteville, AR | 14 February 2014 | Edward R. Holler, 90 of Rogers, AR passed away Friday, February 14, 2014 in Fayetteville. He was born October 23, 1923 in Milwaukee, WI to John Edward Holler and Eliza (Rehmus). He was a retired truck driver for Wisconsin Electric Power and was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II where he was a P.O.W. for 14 months. |
Buried |
Fayetteville, AR | 17 February 2014 | Fayetteville National Cemetery Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA Plot SECTION A-1 ROW B SITE 28 |
Other Shot Down/Captured |
Bruschal, Germany | 25 February 1944 | Failed to Return Comments: 41C Group, High Squadron, Lead Group. Feathered #2 engine at 1325 hrs but continued on towards target; at 1420, three minutes before target was reached, jettisoned bombs and peeled off from formation, perhaps heading for Switzerland; crash-landed near Bruchsal, Germany. MACR 277 |
Revisions
https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/SortieReport.php?SortieKey=1…
https://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=1770
http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=6283169
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/44047_06_0…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125325372/edward-r.-holler
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2774 / MACR 2774, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database