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| Paul Bergman Jan. 1999
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| Paul Bergman and Crew
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Last
Name:
BERGMAN |
First
Name Middle Initial:
PAUL O |
Nick
Name:
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| Street:
PO BOX 237 |
City
& State: EAGLE CREEK, OR |
E-Mail:
PBER916387@AOL.COM |
| Zip:
97022 |
Phone:
(503) 637-6546 |
Spouse: |
| Conflict:
WWII |
Service
Branch: Air Force |
Unit:
8TH AIR FORCE 93 BG, 409 SQD |
| Theater:
ETO |
Where
Captured: Dawelshashem, Germany |
Date
Captured: 10/9/44 |
| Camps
Held In: HOSPITALS |
How
Long Interned: 178 days |
| Liberated
/ repatriated: liberated |
Date
Liberated: 04/05/45 |
Age
at Capture: 24 |
| Medals
Received: Bronze Star, Air Medal, Purple Heart |
| Military
Job: Radio Man on a B24 |
Company:
SafeWay Stores |
| Occupation
after War: Retail Food |
Bio:
My name is Paul Bergman; I was the radioman on a B-24 bomber attached
to the 93rd BG, 409th BS. We were shot down October 9, 1944 over
Dawelshausen, Germany, and liberated April 5, 1945. For the entire time
I was under a Hospital or Rehab environment due to broken feet and leg.
I missed being sent on a forced march due to my leg cast always getting
damaged. “It always got damaged at the same spot, where the pull date
was”. When it was repaired the technician always put a later date to
remove the cast then was on it originally. I weighed 195lbs when I was
shot down and only weighed 127lbs with a full leg cast when I was
liberated.
I came home, recuperated and went about my life until the year 1994 when
I was forwarded a letter by the 93rd BG Assoc. from a German Researcher
who was researching my Aircraft crash. This particular letter motivated
me to follow-up and find the other surviving four crew members and
discover what happens to the five crewmembers (KIA).
With the help of the National Archives, MACR reports, KU reports, German
researcher and a personal letter from a German civilian who saw me jump
out of my Aircraft, I now know the fate of how all five of the men that
were (KIA). I am now in contact with the three remaining POW crewmembers
and also with the wife of my Pilot.
The picture above was taken on Liberation Day by the Red Cross and
printed in their June 1945 POW Bulletin, and me as of January 1999.
Paul O. Bergman - #24964 LM
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