George Blalock was born on April 5, 1921 and was from North Carolina. He served as the Engineer on B-17 “Lazy Baby” (42-308410) of the 364th Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomber Group “Can Do” based out of Chelveston, (Station 105), England.
On October 14, 1943, “Lazy Baby” was on a mission to bomb ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt, Germany (Mission 115) with another 320 bombers on a day now called “Black Thursday” due to the heavy losses. “Lazy Baby” was severely damaged but Pilot Dienhart was able to avoid enemy fighters and crashed landed in Switzerland. Enroute to Switzerland Crewmembers Bolin and Blalock bailed out and became German POWs. Navigator Rowley died from the day after landing from wounds received while flying; Crew members Johnson and Smith recovered form wounds and joined the rest of the crew at the Adelboden internment camp in Switzerland. All crewmembers except for Rowley returned back to the US at the end of the war.

FROM FIND A GRAVE:SEAFORD - George Henry Blalock Jr. of Seaford died of cancer Thursday, March 25, 2004, in his home. He was 82. Mr. Blalock was born in Ansonville, N.C., son of the late George Henry Sr. and Myrtle Hathcock Blalock. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army Air Corps as a master sergeant. While on a bombing mission over Germany in the B-17 bomber Lazy Baby, he was shot down and spent almost two years as a prisoner of war. His and his crew's experience during this mission was featured in an article in the October 1993 edition of Reader's Digest. He worked as a lineman-foreman for C.W. Wright Construction Co., of Richmond, Va., retiring in 1983 after more than 30 years' service. He owned and operated the Dairy Bar Restaurant with his wife, Pearl, in Seaford for 20 years.