Personal File · AirmanPrisoner of WarPassed 30 Jan 1978

Gerald G. Gray.

Co-Pilot · 409th Squadron · Of Vida, MT.

Gerald G. Gray
Serial No. 0-660348

The man.

§ Biography

2nd Lt. Gerald G. Gray served as co-pilot aboard B-24D "Double Trouble" on 19 January 1943.

Gray is listed as RMC (Returned to Military Control) on the revised MACR form.

From the 2nd Air Division Association Yearbook

Assigned as bombardier to a B-24D, 328th Bomb Sqdn., 93rd Bomb Group as a second lieutenant. Arrived in Alconbury, England Sept. 10, 1942.

Flew 19 operational missions as bombardier on Double Trouble from Alconbury and from Libya, North Africa. Shot down over Sousse, Tunisia on Jan. 19, 1943. Survived the duration of the war as a prisoner, mostly in Stalag Luft III. Liberated in Moosburg, Germany in Spring 1945.

Service record.

§ As Catalogued
Rank
2nd Lieutenant
Position
Co-Pilot
Serial Number
0-660348
Hometown
Vida, MT

Missions flown.

1 catalogued · newest first

Before and after.

§ The Civilian Years
Before the War

Born March 3, 1919 in Vida, MT. Graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Enlisted in USAAC in December 1941.

After the War

Liberated in Moosburg, Germany in Spring 1945. Achieved final rank of first lieutenant. Died Jan. 30, 1978 in Portland, OR.