Lloyd Welch Ace Moore

Military

B-17G #42-37924 crashed upon landing at Little Staughton on return from training mission on 9 Jan 1944. Right landing gear failed to lower. RTD.



Shot down by fighters and crashed near Wesel, Germany on a mission to Oschersleben, Germany on 22 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-97488. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-37924

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group

42-5747

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Bucket of Bolts : Hangar Queen
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron 94th Bomb Group 332nd Bomb Squadron

42-97488

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

Places

Stalag Luft III

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany

Events

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Assigned

Grafton Underwood, AAF Station 106 17 November 1943 - 22 February 1944 Assigned to the 547th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 384th Bomb Group (Heavy) per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #143, Extract, dated 17 November 1943, effective 17 November 1943. Norman F. DeFrees Crew, 13 combat missions

Other

Prisoner of War

22 February 1944 Shot down by 10-15 vigorous ME 109s between 1230 and 1300 hrs near Muenster, Germany; crashed near Dortmund or Wesel, Germany. MACR 2465. POW Camp: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia (Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11

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Added punctuation in the "Summary biography" to aid readability.

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Merged with duplicate entries to include details from :
AAIR 43-11-30-519 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database;
http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=2796

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2465, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces