WE WENT TO WAR

Part XI:  Our Opposition

Japanese Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Fighter Units in the Southwest Pacific

TABLE 1

380TH BOMB GROUP CREWS SHOT DOWN BY
JAPANESE ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY

 

Dates

Crew

Sqdn

Location

Source

11/12 September 1943

Lippincott (22)

530th

Macassar

Horton, BSW, pp. 97-98

21 November 1943

Beller (6)

528th

Manokwari

Horton, BSW, p. 120

5 February 1944

Bates (89)

531st

Biak, Geelvink Bay (Crash landed, Crocker Island, Australia)

Horton, BSW, pp. 169-172

9 October 1944

Prest (77)

531st

Koepang, Timor

Horton, BSW, pp. 273-275

12 July 1945

Dyson
(Mixed Crew)

528th

Toshien, Formosa

Horton, BSW, pp. 396-399

 

              Source:  The Best in the Southwest - The 380th Bomb Group in World War II, by Glenn R. Horton, Jr., Library of Congress Card Number 95-079703, ISBN 0-9645959-0-7. Mosie Publications, Savage, MN, 1995.

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