Information Request Please

Hello
S/Sgt Joseph M. Sofranko was radio-operator in a C-47 shot down over Normandy during mission Freeport on 7 june 1944.
314th Troop Carrier Group - 32nd Troop carrier squadron (not bomb sq)
 
the two other men were not in the same aircraft

You can check their full POW records on the aad.archives.gov website.
 
Abram, Melvin was a PVT in the infantry.   His parent unit was 314 (not sure what that means, perhaps his infantry regiment?)
William J Killion was a T/Sgt in the infantry.  Same parent unit, 314.  
Now Killion is interesting because apparently as a 2nd Lt,  he was also a POW in Korea.
 
http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=64087

 
 

I forgot to say in my first message that aircraft was #43-15146
they flew in serial 40 from Saltby
MACR #5712

Thanks for the replies, greatly appreciated.
 
Scott - Interesting that you posted the Stalag Luft IV roster as that is my work.  I have combined the rosters of the late Leonard "Rosie" Rose and Robert Ludden, as well as from the NARA, but going the extra mile in collecting the information as A/C number, A/C name, lost date, MARC, etc.  I am also working on including all of the other allied forces POWs i.e. British, Polish, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, etc.  Just out of curiousity, how did you get a portion of it?
 
Thanks again for the help!
 
Regards,

Andy

Scott -
You would think that obtaining information on the Polish POWs would be difficult, but I have more information filled in for the Polish POWs then I do for the US POWs.  The author of the book Footprints on the Sands of Time by Oliver Clutton-Brock passed onto me a list of all the non-American POWs in SL IV complied by Mr. George Dummett.  Mr. Dummett was the Lager Postman.  The names included serial number, barrack number, room number, and POW number.
 
I wish to someday put this into publication, but feel it will never be to the stage of completion that will do anyone any good, as I am having difficulty obtaining basic info such as A/C number, A/C name if app., MARC number, etc. as most of the Bomber Groups I need I can't get the info.  I have been relying on these BG's websites in compiling the info I want to tput together.  Most just don't exist, and the NARA has very little unless I want to obtain service records for over the 10,000 names I have.  I'll keep plugging away though.
 
Regards,
 
Andy

Hello, Dan
 
I am your mother's cousin, and in the summer of 1986 taped an interview with your grandfather, Walter Florczak, about his POW experience. Email me at robert@robertflorczak.com and I will get a copy to you.
 
Regards,
 
Robert Florczak