CREW #7
A/C #42-30042
MACR #1020
AFTER A FEW MISSIONS, MAGEE FULLER WAS MADE OPERATIONS OFFICER OF THE
349TH AND WAS LATER TRANSFERRED TO THE 418TH WHERE HE BECAME THE SQUADRON
COMMANDER. MAGEE APPEARS TO BE THE LAST ORIGINAL AIRCREW OF THE 100TH TO
BE LOST TO ENEMY ACTION.
| 1ST LT
MAGEE C. FULLER |
P |
POW |
20 JUL 44 |
MERSEBURG |
| 2ND LT WINTON MacCARTER |
CP |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| 2ND LT HAROLD L. WEACHTER |
NAV |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| 2ND LT GEORGE H. ZIEGLER |
BOM |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| T/SGT JACK C. ROGERS |
TTE |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| S/SGT ROBERT W. SANDY |
ROG |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| S/SGT ALEXANDER F. SAWICKI |
BTG |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| S/SGT COSIMO A. DeMONICA |
WG |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| S/SGT RAYMOND J. MANLEY |
TG |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER |
| S/SGT GEORGE W. EASTERWED |
WG |
NOC |
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GROUNDED IN JULY 1943 |
| S/SGT ROY D. GRAFF |
WG |
POW |
10 OCT 43 |
MUNSTER (REPLACED ESTERWED) |
On 10 Oct 1943 (Munster) Winton MacCarter had already taken over the
crew and was flying as first pilot with Lt Dan Barna as CP.
Magee Fuller later became C. O. of the 418th Sqdn. He went down with
crew of F. C. Kincannon on 20/7/44.
In a letter of 30/l/1979 to Jim Brown, Hal Weachter tells of the
mission of lO/lO/43 as follows:
"Our plane was hit in the wing behind #3 engine with a rocket from a
ME-109. It blew a large hole in the wing and started a fire. We could not
get the fire out by side slipping so we all bailed out. All landed safely
with co-pilot Dan Barna, radio operator Sawicki, and I each breaking an
ankle. We were rounded up and put in a jail at an airfield overnight. The
next day Barna, Sawicki & I were taken to a POW hospital near Dusseldorf.
The gunners went to Stalag #4, I believe and MacCarter and Ziegler to
Stalag #3 as I recall. Barna, Sawicki & I and some others who had come
into the hospital after being shot down were sent (19 Nov. 43) to
Frankfort for interrogation where we arrived at 2AM. We slept in a
Railroad station and caught a Tram to Obestel at SAM. Our clothes were
taken away and we were put in solitary, On 30 Nov. we were given British
army clothes, a Great coat & shoes and shipped to Stalag #1. The Germans
had just reopened this camp and we were in the first 100 prisoners. The
camp was expanded as the war progressed and at war's end there were close
to 9000 POWs. We were packed into a box car at Frankfort & given a box of
food from the Red Cross and black bread and bologna from the Germans. We
arrived at Barth, Germany at 5P11 on 4 Dec. 1943 and marched to the Stalag
which is a couple of miles west & north of the city - a few miles from the
Baltic sea.
In March we were liberated by the Russian army. The German commandant
wanted to march the whole camp west to stay out of Russian hands, but Col.
Zabreski (Fighter ace the senior officer, convinced him that it was
useless. One morning we woke up and all of the guards were gone. The
Russians came through the next day. We sat in camp until the end of the
war when the Air Force sent in planes to fly us to Camp Lucky Strike in
France. We left Le Harve on the USS General Butner and docked at Newport
News on 20 June 1945. "
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