Walter Engelbert Togel

Military

Shot down 30 July 1943 in B-17 #42-30202. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Units served with

388th Bomb Group

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

563rd Bomb Squadron

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

People

Donald Morris Boyd

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 12168148
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Robert James Hoke

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-673572
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Navigator

Billy James Hooker

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: T-325
Highest Rank: Flight Officer
Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Orville Winfard Lewis

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 38188080
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Ralph Thadus May

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 34312218
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: waist gunner

Aircraft

42-30202

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron

Missions

A Dutch soldier surveys the wreckage of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 381st Bomb Group that has crashed near Apeldoorn. First Handwritten caption on reverse: '381BG, 30/7/43 by Fighters.' Second Handwritten caption on reverse: '42-3100, 381 BG, 532 BS. 3 KM SE of Apeldoorn, 30-7-43 10:45 Hrs. RNAF'

Places

Aerial photograph of Knettishall airfield looking south, the bomb dump is bottom left, 13 March 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC226. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Events

Event	Date	Description
Born	7 August 1911	New York
Enlisted	4 September 1942	Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York
Other Bailed out	30 July 1943	of 42-30202, over Belgium
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	30 July 1943	Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan/Zagan, Poland. Force-marched at the end of January 1945 from there to Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany. NARA WWII POW records : "Returned to Military Control 17 July 1945."
Died

Revisions

Date20 Jan 2020 16:24:49

ContributorED-BB

Changes

Sources

MACR 3125
NARA WWII Enlistment recods
NARA WWII POW records
SSDI (Social Security Death Index)
Personal research for 42-30202 and its crew for Tail Gunner Donald Boyd's page at http://www.evasioncomete.org/fboyddm.html

Date27 Sep 2014 18:26:51

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3125 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database