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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Branch service: USAAF; theater: ETO
Assigned: 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), 336th Squadron:
Service dates: Feb. 4,1943 to Oct. 27, 1945
Inducted: Richmond, VA: Fort Lee, VA for assignment
Basic training: Miami Beach, FL.
Aerial gunnery school: Fort Meyers, FL
Aircraft mechanic school: Shepard Field, Wichita Falls, TX
Crew assignment: Salt Lake City, UT
Flight training: Rapid City, SD
Picked up new B-17g plane: Kearney, NE
Flew to: Gander Point, Newfoundland
Landed overseas: Nutt’s Corner, Ireland, July 4, 1944
Sent to crew assignment center, England
Assigned: 95th Bomb Group (H), 336th Squadron, Aug 1944, in Horam, England
First mission: Aug 15, 1944. Bombed air field in France
Last mission: Aug 16, 1944. Bombed synthetic oil plant., Zeitz, Germany. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Crew bailed out at about 20,000 feet. Captured by civilians upon landing. Reunited with seven crewmembers late that afternoon. One a couple days later. We did not know if Bob Miguet, the ninth member of the crew, was dead or alive until we met him in May 1945 while we were at La Harve, France waiting shipment home. Two members of our crew were shot by civilians: navigator Jim Gregory in the hip by a pistol; radioman Bob Miguet by a shotgun at a very close range.

Prisoner of war camps: Interrogation center, Frankfurt, Germany. Dulag Luft, Wetzler; Stalag Luft VI (??); St. Wendel, Germany; Stalag Luft IV, Gros Tychow, Germany (now Poland).
In the march: Stalag Luft IV was evacuated on Feb 6, 1945, because the Russians were getting close. Some of the POWs were sent out by train but most of us marched from that date until we were liberated. I was liberated on May 2, 1945 by a unit of the British 2nd Army. By that time we had marched between 500 and 750 miles.
Out of Germany: I was flown out of Germany on a British C-47 to Brussels, Belgium on May 8, 1945. Turned over to the US in Namur, Belgium and sent to La Harve, France for a ship to take us home.
Back in the USA: Arrived at Camp Myles Standish in Boston, MA on June 8,1945. I was sent to Fort Meade, MD for a couple of days. Then I was sent home for a sixty-day rehabilitation leave. I reported to Miami Beach, FL about the middle of August 1945. I was then assigned to the Greensboro, NC Overseas Replacement Center and I received my discharge there on October 27, 1945.