Louie Frank Tillery
Military
Original military records from my father's personal collection
Object Number - UPL 33777 - Second page of letter sent to my father (Stanley Vitkavage, the pilot) with a request for him to contact all of the next of kin of his crew on the...
Louie Tillery was Top Turret Gunner on board of B-24 42-51506 on the 27 February 1945 mission to the Halle Marshalling Yards, Germany. Crashed Betzenhausen, 1,5km NW of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39911604
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33728946
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35331002
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2072788
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator / Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36758482
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 701st Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 27 February 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Tivetshall
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Cottonwood, Alabama, USA | 5 January 1923 | the son of William O. and Lilla Bell (Bruner) Tillery |
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Enlisted |
3 April 1943 | Fort McClellan, Alabama | |
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Other captured |
27 February 1945 | in the immediate vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, after he baled out of B-24 42-51506 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
27 February 1945 | Interned in Germany. NARA WWII POW records : “Returned to Military Control 17 October 1945.” | |
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Other Honorably discharged |
7 November 1945 | ||
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Died |
8 May 2010 | ||
| Cottonwood, Houston County, Alabama | |||
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Buried |
Louie Tillery rests at the Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Houston County, Alabama |
Revisions
MACR 12778
NARA WWII Enlistment records
WWII Draft cards
US Census 1930
NARA WWII POW records
Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
VA Gravesite Locator
Birsic MACR 12778 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12778 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
