The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
S/Sgt. Paul E. Orwig served as left waist gunner aboard B-24L 44-49573, 329th Bomb Squadron, on 23 March 1945.
Listed as MIA on the original MACR. No surviving crew member accounted for him after the crash. Status: KIA based on the MACR annotation and eyewitness evidence.
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Position
Waist Gunner
Serial Number
13172142
Missions flown.
4 catalogued · 23 Mar 1945 — 12 Sep 1944
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
Sources.
§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1945
Official record