Pohl Dewayne William

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Dewayne William Pohl is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

B-17 42-31431 (aka Solid Sender) Crash Marker

Name:

Dewayne William Pohl

Rank:

First Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-740711

Unit:

710th Bomber Squadron, 447th Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Death:

1969-11-13

State:

Iowa

Cemetery:

Greenwood Cemetery, Pierson, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA

Plot:

2N, 8

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Air Medal

Comments:

DeWayne William Pohl was born on September 4, 1922, in Boone, Boone County, Iowa. He was the husband of Ruth Marie Youll Pohl.

Pohl was assigned to the 710th Bomber Squadron, 447th Bomber Group, Heavy, as a navigator of B-17 42-31431 (aka Solid Sender) during World War II. Shot down by flak and crashed while enroute to the target in Regensburg on February 25, 1944. He was taken as a Prisoner of War in Barth, Germany. He remained in USAF serving in Korea and Vietnam, rising to Lieutenant Colonel.

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