Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
DODSON, James Meredith - Date of
birth
30 July 1915 -
Age
27 - Place of
birth
DeValls Bluff, Prairie County, Arkansas -
Hometown
Houston, Harris County, Texas
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O-664877 -
Rank
First Lieutenant -
Function
Navigator -
Unit
355th Bombardment Squadron,
95th Bombardment Group, Heavy
-
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal
Death
-
Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
26 July 1943 - Place of
death
Bremen, west of river Elbe, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Ernest Kirtley Dodson (father)
Sarah Senter (Richardson) (mother)
Ernest K. Dodson (brother)
Plane data
- Serial
number
42-3264 -
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Angel of Destruction
Destination: Hannover, Germany
Mission: Bombing of rubber factories
MACR: 193
More information
James M. Dodson attended college and was an accountant.He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Houston, Texas on 5 January 1942.
The airplane was shot down by enemy aircraft and flak, which knocked out two engines. The entire crew of ten men was killed.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.archives.gov -
WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees
Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Michel Beckers