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2LT Don Pearson Woods

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Birth	:	18 May 1923 Jasper County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	8 Sep 1944 France
Burial	:	Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.1515732, -118.3179703
Description	:	Pilot 2nd/Lt. Don P. Woods KIA Hometown: Mitchelville, Iowa Squadron: 577th BS 392th Bomb Group Service # Awards: Purple Heart. Target: Karlsruhe Germany MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #08604 Date Lost: 8-Sep-44 Serial Number: #42-52607 Aircraft Model B-24 Aircraft Letter:"V-Plus" Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 2nd Mission Location: near Nancy, France". Cause: AA fire Crew of 10 10KI The same target as the one the day before was once again assigned to the 14th Combat Wing. Briefings were held at 0330 and 0500 for (36) aircrews. Group aircraft took off in heavy rain squalls and once again the heavy stationary front over Europe forced the Group to penetrate and reassemble... Read More	Pilot 2nd/Lt. Don P. Woods KIA Hometown: Mitchelville, Iowa Squadron: 577th BS 392th Bomb Group Service # Awards: Purple Heart. Target: Karlsruhe Germany MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #08604 Date Lost: 8-Sep-44 Serial Number: #42-52607 Aircraft Model B-24 Aircraft Letter:"V-Plus" Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 2nd Mission Location: near Nancy, France". Cause: AA fire Crew of 10 10KI The same target as the one the day before was once again assigned to the 14th Combat Wing. Briefings were held at 0330 and 0500 for (36) aircrews. Group aircraft took off in heavy rain squalls and once again the heavy stationary front over Europe forced the Group to penetrate and reassemble on the eastern side of the weather. Bombing results were estimated good for the PFF drop but later photos showed no hits on the MPI. One aircraft and crew were lost from the 577th in ship #607. Lieutenant D. P. Woods' crew was last seen 1229 hours, position 4840N-0540E with #2 engine out and going into a spin just when the formation hit the weather front. Nothing more was known about the loss of this aircrew. MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: 1/Lt J.N. Baron, 577th Sqdn pilot, reported seeing the ship "with No. 2 engine out going into a spin at 1229, near 4840N - 0540E. May have been able to pull out of it when he feathered, wing dropped. Disappeared in cloud. Just when formation hit front." The MACR file does not contain any German reports on the downing of the plane. INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: One surviving crew member, radio operator Sgt. Yeates, gave a brief account about the events his liberation from POW status, It was the crew's fifth combat mission, and their aircraft had taken considerable damage from AA fire in the target area. His report continued: "... I saw the pilot and Co-Pilot struggling with the controls. The ship was in a spin. Dewey Bowyer (was) in the top turret. No one seemed hurt. I was either hit with something or blacked out. I woke up about ten days later in (ST. XIIF?) hospital, Saarburg, France. Navigator Batko bailed out and was taken prisoner. I knew nothing about the fate of the other members until I got back to the States. The aircraft crashed near Nancy, France". Engineer Pvt Anthony P. Palumbo successfully evaded capture with the help of Free Frenchmen. Upon his return to the 392nd BG on 9 Dec 1944, he said the plane went into the cloud in a dive, dropped about 13,000 feet, then pulled up for 30 seconds. This is when Palumbo bailed out. It is thought that Yeates also bailed out at this point. Then the plane dived, crashed, exploded and burned. Palumbo parachuted and landed behind German lines with a broken ankle. He was helped behind enemy lines until American troops overran, when he was sent to a hospital in France. BURIAL RECORDS: U.S. National Overseas Cemetery records show that Sgt. Schmidt and Sgt. Bowyer are interred in the LORRAINE CEMETERY at St. Avoid, France, east of Metz. Sgt. Schmidt is in grave G-15-21 and Sgt Bowyer is in grave B-17-60. No other record exists in this MACR on the recovery/re-burials of any other deceased crew member. The #42-52607 crew 2nd/Lt. Don P. Woods Pilot KIA 2nd/Lt. Roger V. Newell Co Pilot KIA 2nd/Lt. Edward L. Batko Navigator POW T/Sgt. Anthony P. Palumbo Engineer EVD T/Sgt. Clyde K. Yeates Radio Op. POW S/Sgt. Robert E. Farrar Gunner KIA Sgt. Dewey O. Bowyer Jr. Gunner KIA Sgt. Glenn L. Krugh Gunner KIA Sgt. Arthur N. Schmidt Gunner KIA

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2LT Don Pearson Woods's memorial is located at: Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, USA.
When did 2LT Don Pearson Woods death?
2LT Don Pearson Woods death on 8 Sep 1944 in France
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Latitude: 34.1515732
Longitude: -118.3179703

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Parent

Raymond Arthur Woods

(1893 - 1973)

Lorena M Pearson Woods

(1895 - 1998)

Spouse

Siblings

Max R Woods

(1922 - 1997)

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