Edmund T Barcikowski

Military
media-33498.jpeg UPL 33498 This is my Dad in uniform in 1944 Edmund T. Barcikowski

taken from my parents photo album

Object Number - UPL 33498 - This is my Dad in uniform in 1944

Prisoner of War (POW) crashed at Unddorp on 6 Dec 1944 in B-17 'Mr. Tacoma' #4337944

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

43-37944

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th Bomb Squadron

Places

Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 6 December 1944

Born

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
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Corrected fate from KIA to Prisoner of War following correspondence with Edmund Barcikowski's daughter, Barb.

See also: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=1&cat=WR26&t…

Date
ContributorBarbBarcikKeith
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Prisoner of War Medal site

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ContributorBarbBarcikKeith
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I'm his daughter

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11047 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 33498 - This is my Dad in uniform in 1944