Harace A. Davenport

AFPPA-11
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
6977
Name of crew member:
Davenport, Herace A.
Rank:
Sgt.
Serial number:
34646165
Position: Crew (Bomber) Asst. Armorer Gunner.
Did he bail out?
Not to my knowledge.
Where?
If not, why not?
1 think that he was wounded very badly
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane
I talked with him about 5 minutes before the fighter attack.
Was he injured?
I think so.
Where was he when last seen?
In the tail turret
Any hearsay information:
I heard that he was shot pretty brdly and was unable to
get out of his position in the tail.
Source :
Other crew members
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition:
Iam led to believe that he was in the tail when the plane crashed which was
in the vicinity of Leuckritch, Bavaria, Germany
Total number of missions of above crew member:
I don8t know.
Dates und destinations if possible: Fatal Mission: Memmingen, Germany
6-3861, AF

BROOKS FIELD, TEXAS
28 February 1946
COMMANDING GENERAL
ARMY AIR FORCES
ATTENTION: AFPPA-8
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
SIR:
Perhaps the following will tell you why my knowledge of Sgt. Davenport
is slipht:
Of the men with me that day, none were members of my regular crew. In
fact, five different crews were revresented in that ship.
The attack which resulted in my ship going down came from the rear.
The communication system was shot out and the waist gunners and radio operstor
bailed out when the ship went out of controle. Later, they told me about the
condition of the tail section and their opinion of the ate of Sgt. Devenport.
The ship blew up in the air, and the opinion of the crew members was that Sgt.
Davenport was still in the ship.
I was unable to learn anything about the fate of the enlisted crewmen
until nine months after we went down, as Officers and enlisted men were placed
in different camps.
The information I have been able to give you was gnthered after we were
liberated in May 1945.
Respectfully
Harvey S. Myers
lst. Lt. A.C.