Zaven Noobar Masoomian

Military

31 December 1943 Bordeaux, France; 11 January 1944 Oschersleben, Germany. Shot down by fighters on return from mission to Oscherleben on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17G #42-39893. Prisoner of War (POW).



After the war, Zaven's love of classical music and radios led to a career at station WQXR in New York City as a Radio Broadcast Engineer.

Connections

See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.

Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-39893

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron

Places

Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Worcester, Massachusetts 18 February 1921

Died

Plano, TX, USA 11 October 2013

Buried

2000 Mountain Creek Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75211, USA At Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=1&cat=all&tf…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119007675/zaven-noobar-masoomian#

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self/MACR 2505, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=948