Born Arthur Bryant Junior. Middle name he used was Paul, and then later changed to Russell which he kept the rest of his life.
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10 MEMBER CREW (6 KIA) (4 POW)

Pilot: 1Lt. George B Keck, KIA
Co-Pilot: 2Lt. Raymond A Gaither, KIA
Navigator: 2Lt. William O. Juart, POW
Bombardier: 2Lt. Arthur R. Bryant, POW
Radio Operator: TSgt. Frank H. Hollingsworth, KIA
Top Turret: TSgt. Milton J. Deville, POW
Ball Turret: SSgt. William D. Wolven, KIA
Tail Gunner: SSgt. William F. Igou, POW
Flexible Gunner: SSgt. Walden A. Hughes, KIA
Flexible Gunner: SSgt. Theodore Paduch, KIA

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Boeing B17F Flying Fortress
Serial#: 42-30104
384th Bombardment Group
547th Bomb Squadron
Missing Air Crew Report #286
Date: Aug 12, 1943
Mission: Synthetic Gas Refinery
Destination: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Plane was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed in Haus Oelgarten, a district of the city Hennef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia. Haus Oelgarten consists of only two houses on a wooded hill between the villages of Hennef Geistingen and Dambroich.
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Did you bail out? Blown out
Did other crew members bail out? Some of them
TSgt Milton Deville bailed out before I did. His hands were frozen before bailing out. After he bailed out, I met him at Bonn, Germany and as far as I know he was suffering burns and a bad back. Met him in La Havre, France in May 1945 on his way back to the states
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German KU Report
Shot down by:
Pilot: Lt Kurt Ibing
Unit: Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1/4)
Aircraft: Focke-Wulf (Fw 190A-6)
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POW Camp: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria
(Moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser) 49-11
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DISCREPANCIES REGARDING B17 AIRCRAFT ID:
ID#42-30104 on Missing Air Crew Report
IS#42-3104 on numerous websites
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Info contributed by Jen
Sources: Sources: MACR report 286 and research
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