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Missing Air Crew Report 2925
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1944 · Missing Air Crew Reports
Sortie2BDB-24Missing in Action
41-28228.Over Chateaudun, France.
Mission 210 · 05 February 1944
Serial
41-28228
B-24H
Squadron
409th
Ted's Traveling Circus
Aboard
1
men
The crew.
§ 1 aboard
Name
Position
Serial
Hometown
On this flight
Girard J. Pepin
Waist Gunner
Station 8
35409142
—
Prisoner of war
Returned
→
In their own words.
§ 1 entry
Girard J. PepinWaist Gunner
S/Sgt. Francis T. Pepin, born 16 August 1921, of Escanaba, Michigan, served as waist gunner on the 5 February 1944 mission. The MACR contains a transcription error rendering his name as "Pepia"; an admission slip from Fresnes Military War Prison, Paris, dated 12 February 1944 confirms the correct spelling as Pepin, serial 35409142. Pepin was captured by SD-Kdo. Bordeaux and transferred to Fresnes Prison on 10 February 1944, before being forwarded to Dulag Luft at Oberursel/Taunus for interrogation.
The flight.
§ Ship’s Record
The Day
Took off fromHardwick (Sta. 104)
The Record
ResultMissing in Action
Record confidenceValidated against a source
Formation
Flew with409th Squadron
Fuel & Equipment
H2X scope photoNo
The target.
§ As Briefed
Chateaudun, France
As the log wrote itChateaudun, France
Notes.
§ From the Record
B-24H serial 41-28228, assigned to the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group, departed Station 104 on 5 February 1944 on a bombing mission to Chateaudun, France. The aircraft was last seen at 1143 between Tours and Chateaudun. Eyewitnesses reported the aircraft left the formation apparently under control, then approximately two minutes later was seen to blow up. Weather at the time was clear with unlimited visibility. German field-air-district records confirm a Liberator crashed at approximately 12:30 on 5 February 1944, 1 km north of Danze, 14 km west of Freteval, 24 km south-southwest of Chateaudun. Most of the crew of 10 survived and were captured by German forces.
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§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1944
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