Everett Wayne Powell
Military1918-1999
Fighting Powells Military Record Scrapbook
One of seven Powell brothers who served the United States in World War II. Crashed 3km NW of Wuustwezel, near the Belgium/Netherlands border, NE of Antwerp, Belgium due to a runaway prop on a bomber support mission to Duren, Germany on 4 March 1944 in P-47C #41-6374. MACR 2973. Landed in parachute near Antwerp and was helped by Belgian patriots who fed, clothed, sheltered, guided him in various places. Led to Brussels in order to have him evacuated to England, the Resistance group which had taken him in charge was infiltrated by Belgian traitors and he was arrested by the Gestapo in Antwerp on 28 April 1944. Prisoner of War until his liberation by US troops at the end of April 1945. See the full story of his evasion at http://www.evasioncomete.org/fpowellew.html
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group
Missions
- Date: 4 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Illinois, United States | 20 January 1918 | the son of George Robert Powell and Addie Agnes (Hunnicutt) Powell |
Other Bailed |
Above Mechelen, Belgium | 4 March 1944 | Run-away propeller; mechanical failure of his P-47C Thunderbolt 41-6374 |
Other Evaded capture |
4 March 1944 - 28 April 1944 | Helped by Belgian citizens and members of the Resistance until his arrest on denunciation | |
Other Arrested |
Antwerp, Belgium | 28 April 1944 | |
Other Prisoner of War |
28 April 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan/Zagan, Poland. Force-marched from there and ultimately interned at Stalag 7A in Moosburg Germany. Camp liberated by US troops 29 April 1945 | |
Died |
Sumter, South Carolina, United States | 20 August 1999 | |
Hillview, Illinois, United States | |||
Buried |
Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Sumter, South Carolina, United States | Everett Powell rests at the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina. |
Revisions
Deleted duplicate "April" in Bio and added location of crash according to German report.
Added information about being one of seven brothers in World War II.
MACR 2973
Research for his page at http://www.evasioncomete.org/fpowellew.html
US Census 1920
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2973 / MACR 2973, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list