George P Cassman | American Air Museum

George P Cassman Jr

Military

Crashed near Wiesbaden on 24 Dec 44 in B-17 #43-38173, Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

390th Bomb Group

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

A B-17 Flying Fortress (TS-C, serial number 42-9768) of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, takes off in front of another B-17 Flying Fortress (CC-Z) of the 569th Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group.

569th Bomb Squadron

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

Aircraft

43-38173

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Richmond, Virginia, USA
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Germany	24 December 1944

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Richmond, Virginia, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany

24 December 1944

Revisions

Date19 Jun 2020 04:33:48

Contributorjmoore43

Changes

Sources

Added S/N per MACR 11116 at Fold3.com.
See: https://www.fold3.com/image/30641653

Date19 Jun 2020 04:23:54

Contributorjmoore43

Changes

Sources

Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so the dup person can be deleted.

Date14 May 2020 17:50:18

Contributorjmoore43

Changes

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Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:11:08

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

MACR 11116 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database