Alvin Dale Johnson

Military

Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Brunswick mission 8-Apr-44 in B-24 42-7767 'Shack Rabbit'; Shot down by fighters, baled out. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 3849



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The 'semiofficial' insignia of the 44th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16060557 / O-742628
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Shack Rabbit
  • Unit: 448th Bomb Group 44th Bomb Group 67th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Hastings, Nebraska, USA 26 October 1919 Son of Edward Edwin and Nellie Etta [O'Brien] Johnson.

Enlisted

Omaha NE 31 March 1942

Other

Baled out POW

Hanover, Germany 8 April 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Brunswick mission 8-Apr-44 in B-24 42-7767 'Shack Rabbit'; Shot down by fighters, baled out. POW. MACR 3849

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Krems an der Donau, Austria 8 April 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb.

Died

Loveland, CO 1 May 2011

Buried

Orleans Cemetery, NE 4 May 2011 Orleans Cemetery Orleans, Harlan County, NE

Based

Shipdham 8 April 1944 Assigned to 67BS, 44BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3849 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database