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Norbert DePauw POW card

S/Sgt. Norbert DePauw │ Ball turret gunner │ 100th BG, 350th BS 80 years ago on October 29, 1944 │ Letter from the 100th Bombardment Group, Office of the Catholic Chaplin │ Shot down on September 11, 1944 on the Ruhland Mission │ Held as POW in Stalag Luft IV 100 BOMBARDMENT GROUP, (H) AAF OFFICE OF THE CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN APO 559, c/o POSTMASTER NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. 29 October 1944 Mrs. Eleanora DePauw Jasper, Minnesota Dear friend, Pursuant to request from the Commanding General, Eighth Air Force, the undersigned wishes to convey to you as the next of kin the sympathy and condolence of this Group upon S/Sgt. Norbert 0. DePauw, 37118776, 350th Bomb Squadron, being reported Missing in Action, 11 September 1944. We feel that you would want to know that there was available to Norbert the full Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church together with the full-time services of a Catholic Army Chaplain. Hence the men of Catholic Faith are able to receive the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion before taking off on each Combat Mission. You will be included in the Mass which is said on the First and Third Sunday of each month for all the living and deceased members of this Command, that God might give you strength in the uncertain days ahead. Aloysius M. Phillipis ALOYSIUS M. PHILLIPS, Ch. C., Captain, Catholic Chaplain. _____ S/Sgt. Norbert DePauw flew with the Lt John Giles crew as the ball turret gunner. They were shot down on a mission to the Schwarzheide Synthetic Oil Factory in Ruhland, Germany. The entire crew survived, bailed out, were captured and held as POWs. Norbert O. DePauw Collection | National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

The Spokesman Review April 18 1943

Aw-R-Go Oct 10, 1943 230725 Aw-r-go on the ground Oct 10, 1943 MUNSTER mission. Flown by Capt Charles Cruikshank

Aw-R-Go Oct 10, 1943 230725 Aw-r-go on the ground Oct 10, 1943 MUNSTER mission. Flown by Capt Charles Cruikshank

100 BG / 350 BS 2Lt John E. BAXTER From Chariton, Iowa MIA 28-7-1944 Commemorated on the Cambridge Cemetery Tablets of the Missing. More info on Lt Baxter and the fate of his crew and aircraft can be found here: https://www.usaafclassbookproject.nl/new-class-book-photographs/pilot-class-44-b-bruce-field-texas

The Ogden Standard Examiner Sept 24 1944

The Cincinnati Post July 15 1944

Press and Sun Belletin Feb 22 1944

Alameda Times Star May 30 1945