Frank E Burchinal Jr
MilitaryShot down by fighters near the IP and crashed N of Abbeville, FR on a mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR on 2 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-31776 'Maggie's Drawers'. Prisoner of War (POW). Records indicate that Frank flew all his missions with Lt. Seaman as pilot: #58 (Paris), #59 (Emden), #60 (Kiel), #64 (Pas de Calais), #65 (Ludwigshafen), #66 (Bordeaux), # 68 (Tours), #73 (Frankfurt), #76 (Wilhelmshaven), #80 (Frankfurt), #81 (Leipzig), #85 (Augsburg), #86 (Frankfurt). Following his capture, and after his stay at the Frankfurt interrogation center, he spent time at Stalag Luft VI and then Stalag Luft IV (first in Lager A and later in Lager D). In early February of 1945, he was among the last group to leave Luft IV on the infamous ÒBlack March. Ó Frank fell seriously ill on the march, was left behind, and was moved to other locations, to include Camp 357 and Camp 2-E. He was liberated just outside Camp 2-E around the first of May 1945.
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
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Maggie's Drawers
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania | 7 January 1924 | |
Died |
5 July 2002 | ||
Buried |
Evergreen Memorial, Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2865, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces