Steve Ferdinand Bugyie
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 14565 - B-24 Liberator 42-40606 'Timb-a-h' and crew. This A/C was shot down by an Me 109G-6 flown by Uffz. Fritz Willinger of JG 3/12 on August 16, 43 near...
Assigned to 506BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. Attached to 9AF USAAF, TDY in North Africa.
Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1-Aug-43, flying in B-24 Liberator 42-40606.
Failed to Return (FTR) Weiner Neustadt in B-24 42-72857 'Star Spangled Hell'; mauled by fighters, A/C exploded 10 miles north of target. 1-Oct-43 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 51251
Bugyie states in 44th BG Roll of Honour that he was the regular assistant engineer with pilot Lt Jim Bunce and was flying as a spare gunner. He tells of his evasion for 4 days.
Awards: DFC, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 791384
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19032975 / O-730588
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Soluch Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Exeland, Sawyer County, Wisconsin | 30 May 1923 | Son of Elie G amd Mary F Bugyie. |
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Enlisted |
Milwaukee. WI | 30 September 1942 | Milwaukee. Wisconsin |
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Other Baled out EVD |
North of Weiner Neustadt, Austria | 1 October 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Weiner Neustadt in B-24 42-72857 'Star Spangled Hell'; mauled by fighters, A/C exploded 10 miles north of target. 1-Oct-43 Evaded Capture (EVD) MACR 51251 |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 5 October 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb. |
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Died |
Naperville, IL | 1 November 2007 | |
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Buried |
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Will County, IL | 4 November 2007 | Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Elwood, Will County, Illinois |
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Based |
Shipdham | Assigned to 506BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
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Based |
Benina | 1 October 1943 | Attached to 9AF USAAF, TDY in North Africa. |
Revisions
44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Will Lundy p. 136-138, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey p. 299; MACR 15251 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia