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Prisoner of War Postcard from a Downed American Waist Gunner


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Championhilz

I recently picked up this postcard written by Sergeant James M. Doolittle of Louisville, Mississippi, who served in the 98th Bomb Group, 343rd Bomb Squadron. Doolittle was waist gunner on a B-24, serial number 42-64483-S, which was shot down on February 22, 1944, while on a mission to Regensburg, Germany.

 

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I looked through Sergeant Doolittle's hometown newspaper, The Winston County Journal, and found quite a bit of information about his time as a prisoner of war.

 

The first article I found from April 14, 1944, announced that he was a prisoner of war:

 

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But the best article I found was dated June 15, 1945, after he had been liberated. This article gives a detailed account of his life as a prisoner of war:

 

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