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Saunders Floyd E.

Name:
Floyd E. Saunders
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
19180813
Unit:
332nd Bomber Squadron, 94th Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
State:
Ohio
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Floyd E. Saunders served in the 332nd Bomber Squadron, 94th Bomber Group, Heavy, as a Sergeant and Ball Turret Gunner on the B-17 #42-30444 'Ramrod Ramsbottom/Black Jack IV' during World War II.

On January 5, 1944, his crew took off from Station 468 airfield in Bury St Edmunds, England, for a mission to bomb the Bordeaux-Mérignac airfield in France. Shot down by Me109 fighters at around 1:50 PM, they evacuated their plane by parachute. Their aircraft crashed in the Hourtin Lake, District of Lesparre-Médoc, France. Of the crew, four members were captured by the Germans and taken as prisoners, 5 evaded the capture, and one casualty. Sgt Saunders was one of the POWs. He was taken to Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf in Austria.

Source of information: francecrashes39-45.net