Man Horace S.

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Name:

Horace S. Man

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

14078615

Unit:

332nd Bomber Squadron, 94th Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Death:

0000-00-00

State:

Georgia

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Horace S. Man served in the 332nd Bomber Squadron, 94th Bomber Group, Heavy, as a Staff Sergeant and Right Waist Gunner on the B-17 #42-30444 'Ramrod Ramsbottom/Black Jack IV' during World War II.

On January 5, 1944, his crew took off from Station 468 airfield in Bury St Edmunds, England, for a mission to bomb the Bordeaux-Mérignac airfield in France. Shot down by Me109 fighters at around 1:50 PM, they evacuated their plane by parachute. Their aircraft crashed in the Hourtin Lake, District of Lesparre-Médoc, France. Of the crew, four members were captured by the Germans and taken as prisoners, 5 evaded the capture, and one casualty. SSgt Man was one of the POWs. He was taken to Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang in Germany.

Source of information: francecrashes39-45.net