Walter H Kossack

Military

On 14 Sept 43 P47 42-8455 crashed on take-off on an operational flight from Steeple Morden.



On 7-Nov-43 as pilot of P-47D 42-8477, 355FG/358FS while on return from a mission to provide escort to B-26s from 9th Air Force attacking the German airfields at Montdidier and Mulan, France his aircraft ran into headwinds of over 100mph which caused excessive use of fuel. He was forced to crash land in a field near Caen, France when he ran out of fuel. He was captured as a Prisoner of War (POW).

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42-8477

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 358th Fighter Squadron

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Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 7 November 1943 - 30 June 1945 Held at Stalag Luft 1, Barth-Voglesang, Prussia. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 30-Jun-45.

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Lee Cunningham 10-Jul-2015. Added SN per MACR 1282; Made connections to PLace and Mission wihtin existing website data; Added POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Added Desription details based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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1996 355TH FG Assoc. Directory , MACR 1282,Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey pp. 281-2 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1282 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list