Jack T Gaston
Military
page 92 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/142693375
Object Number - UPL 42250 - Jack Gaston’s photo from his Army ID card on page 92 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/142693375 (NARA)
Jack Gaston was Pilot of P-51 #44-13707 “Lady Dorothy IV” on the bomber escort to Germany, 26 November 1944. Hit by an enemy Me109 fighter North of Osnabrück, Germany, he bailed out of his Mustang and was made a Prisoner of War (POW). His P-51 crashed near Grönloh, 12km NE of Bersenbrück, Germany.
Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 10478. NOTE : The caption for #44-13707 on page 63 of the book “’Down to Earth’ Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force” by William N. Hess (Osprey Publishing – Bloomsbury Piblishing – 2012) wrongly states that it was “shot down by a Bf 109 near Groenlo in Holland on 26 November 1944 whilst being flown by Lt Jack T Gaston, who was killed.”
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 26 November 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Honington
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
29 December 1923 | Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, the son Oscar Caldwell Gaston and Madge Virginia (Spence) Gaston | |
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Enlisted |
8 December 1942 | Phoenix, Arizona | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
26 November 1944 | NARA WWII POW record : “Interned in Germany. Returned to Military Control ‘4 February 1946’…” | |
| Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona | |||
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Died |
Phoenix, Arizona |
Revisions
MACR 10478
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII draft card
NARA WWII POW records
German Reports of Downed Allied Fighters and Other Aircraft, 1943 - 1945 – Report J-2493 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131509347
NARA : page 92 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/142693375
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
MACR 10478
