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1st.Lt. Richard F. Lemanski
United States Army Air Force 339th Bomb Squadron 69th Bomb Group
from:Mass.
1st Lt. Richard Lemanski completed 11 missions to Ludwigshaven, Brunswick, Wilhelmshaven, Frankfort, Rostock, Poznan, Belgium, French and Polish objectives. He was shot down by ME 109s on the mission to Berlin on 8th March 1944 Mission #252 in B-17 #4231576. Richard spent his 20th and 21st birthdays during fourteen months as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft 1 in Barth, Germany, room 15 Block 2. He was the youngest pilot in the 96th Bomb Group and probably in the 8th AF. Although some were seriously injured, all crew members survived to return home safely. The crew was credited with many fighter kills.