Stanley Leonard Bielawski

Military

Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Pas de Calais in B-17 42-97485 26-Mar-44; Hit by flak, crashed St-Marie-Cappel, France; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 3592

Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

379th Bomb Group

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

526th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Bernard M Conlin

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 17000080
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Raymond Eugene Domergue

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 13058970 / O-738541
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Bombardier

Lester Fifield

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 32575091
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Edwin George Finance

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 31145650
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

George A Frazier

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 33296940
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Aircraft

42-97485

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Taletha Ann
Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Airmen and ground crew of the 448th Bomb Group carefully transfer a flak casualty through the waist gun window of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-11-2-448)(26-3-44)(Flak Casualty).' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Patterson.'

8th Air Force 280

Date: 26 March 1944

Places

Dulag Luft 12

Site type: Prisoner of war camp
Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12

Kimbolton

Site type: Airfield

Stalag Luft I

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

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Hamtramck, Michigan, USA	13 November 1921	Son of Felix Bielawski.
Enlisted	Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, MI	18 March 1942	Selfridge Field Mount Clemens Michigan
Other Baled out POW	St-Marie-Cappel, France	26 March 1944	Failed to Return (FTR) Pas de Calais in B-17 42-97485 26-Mar-44; Hit by flak, crashed St-Marie-Cappel, France; POW MACR 3592
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Barth, Germany	26 March 1944	Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.
Based	Kimbolton	26 March 1944	Assigned to 526BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.
	Detroit, MI

Revisions

Date22 May 2019 18:33:00

ContributorAl_Skiff

Changes

Sources

https://www.fold3.com/image/660969324
https://www.fold3.com/record/84355714-stanley-l-bielawski
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?f=645&mtch=1&q…

Date27 Sep 2014 18:25:20

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3592 / MACR 3592, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 302 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database