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2nd Lt. Carl O. Flagstad 551st Squadron 385th Bomb Group Carl Flagstad was a navigator on a B17 serial number 42-40046. He was shot down over Germany on 4th of January 1944. He was a POW at Stalag Luft I until being liberated at the wars end.
Carl returned to Minneapolis and finished college at the University of Minnesota. He married and had 8 children. After graduation he accepted a job as a writer at the Minot Daily News. Carl worked at the News his entire career eventually becoming its editor. Carl passed away in 1993 after a long battle with cancer. He is buried in Minot, ND.
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2nd Lt. James Isaac Hastings 385th Group 551st Squadron My late father, James Hastings, was shot down on his 25th mission as bombardier of the USAAC B-17 bomber "Spirit of Chicago" of the 8th Air Force, 551st Bombardment Squadron, 385th Bombardment Group, over Germany on 29th April 1944, and was taken prisoner of war and imprisoned in Oflag Luft 3 for one year to the day until 29th April 1945 when General Patton's tanks liberated him. He had two confirmed kills of a FW-190 and a ME-262. I have digital pictures of his scrap book and will share these with the interested to honour him.
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1st Lt. Arnold Paul "A.P." Martin 548th Bomb Squadron My father, Arnold P. Martin, was a B-17 co-pilot. The crew was ordered to abandon ship, Miss Nonalee II because of the loss of one engine over Denmark on the way to the Marienburg mission of October 9th, 1943. He was sent to Stalag Luft III, and was on the forced march of January 1945 to Moosburg. He was liberated April 29, 1945 by Patton's Army. He is not listed as a POW at Stalag Luft III in the National Archives. I have tried in vain to have him added because I have all the proof that he was there. However, I have been referred to agency after agency, all who tell me they don't have authority to do so.
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Staff Sgt. Frederic C. Martini 551st Bomb Squadron  Staff Sgt. Frederic C. Martini was stationed with the B-17's at Gt. Ashfield, Suffolk, England. He was a Flight Engineer & Top Turret Gunner. I lived in Stowmarket, a small town about ten miles from Gt. Ashfield. I had no idea my future brother-in-law was stationed so close by. I was only seven. Later I would tease Fred, asking him if he was the American Air Force fellow we picked up along the road one evening, heading for Gt. Ashfield. We took him home to have a meal with us and my mother fed him the last egg we had, being on strict rationing at that time. I asked Fred if he was that fellow and his reply had nothing to do with eggs! Unfortunately, I can't tell you his reply here anyway!
Fred's B-17 was shot down three times. Once they ditched in the English Channel near a rescue buoy & were picked up by the RAF Air-Sea Rescue; another time they crash-landed in a British field; the third time they went down over France & Fred was taken in by the French Underground. However, someone turned him in & he spent time in Buchenwald until they were liberated. He didn't talk much about those times
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2nd Lt. Arnold Paul "A.P." Martin 548th Squadron 385th Bomb Group My father was the co-pilot of B17 'Miss NonaLee II' which developed engine problems on the October 9th 1943 mission to bomb the Marianburg factory. The crew bailed out and the pilot ditched the plane in occupied Denmark. The rest of the crew, including my father, were captured and spent 15 months in Stalag Luft III and then were forced to march to Stalag 7A (Moosburg) in January 1945 where he was imprisoned until liberated on April 29th 1945.
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