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Orion Hadsell Shumway
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Staff Sergeant
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750th Bomber Squadron, 457th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
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New York
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Orion Hadsell Shumway was born in Onsenta, New York. A waist gunner on the B-17 #42-31568, he was one of the survivors when his plane was shot down over Paris on June 14, 1944. Their plane crashed in Iverni, four miles northwest of Meaux, France.
SSgt Shumway was one of the 152 allied airmen and soldiers who were helped and hidden in the Freteval Forest camp by the French Resistance to evade German capture.