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Casualty questionnaire, page 7: GRIFFITH JR Bowen · 11 December 1944
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AFPPA-11
File # 10129
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
Name of crew member:
GRIFFITH JR Bowen
Rank:
lst Lt.
Serial number:
0-766875
Position: Crew (Bomber)
Co-pilot
Did he bail out? Yes
Where? VICINITY OF Sakged, AUSTRAL Hungory
If not, why not?
-
Last contact or conversation just prior to'or at time of loss of plane:
CANNer RECALh
Was he
injured? No
Where was he when last seen? 15th A.F.
Any hearsay information:
Source:
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition:
Total number of missions of above crew member: 35
Dates and destinations if possible:
6-3861, AF
National Archives, MACR 10129, page 7 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.
Eyewitness statement, page 9: GRIFFITH JR Bowen · 11 December 1944
AFPA-11
INDIVIDUAL ,ASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
File d 10129
Name of crew member:
GRIFFITH JR Bowen
Rank:
lat Lt.
Serial number:
0-766875
to
Position: Crow (Bomber)
`Co-pilet
Did he bail out?
Yes
Where?
Close to Lak e Valentine,
If not, why not?
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane:
We all bailed out together, and reached the Russian lines. They sent
UB to Bucharest.
Was he injured?
No
Where was he when last seen?
In Itely, with 43rd Bomber Group
Any hearsay information:
None
Source:
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition:
So far as I know, he arrived home 0. K.
Total number of missions of above crew member:
35
Dates and destinations if possible: The above veteran belonged to another orew
so I cannot answer this que stion.
6-3861,AF
National Archives, MACR 10129, page 9 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.
Eyewitness statement, page 16: GRIFFITH JR Bowen · 11 December 1944
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRS
the
ruse #
Name of crew member:
GRIFFITH JR Bowen
Rank:
lec Lt.
Serial number:
0-766875
Position: Crow (Bomber)
Co-pilet
Did he bail out?
Yes
Where? 46-121, 16-CS near Berzencze, Hungary
If not. why not? XXXXX
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane: T talked to
him about two (2) minutes before we bailed out.
Was he injured?
No
Where was he when last seen? le returned to our base together.
Any hearsay information: None
Source : XXX X
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition: Lt. Griffith
landed safely and returned to his base.
Total number of missions of above crow member 35
Dates and destinations if possible: No knowledge
6-3881, AF
National Archives, MACR 10129, page 16 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.
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