George R. Ostrowski

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1942 (Dec.) - 410th Sq., Biggs Field 2

Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down at Gelnhausen on 9/11/44 in B-17G Green Hornets #42-31653

11/9/44 Pilot: Merle Green, Irving Metzger, Frank Jones, Lou Lehere, Pete Riley, Jim Gegenheimer, George Ostrowski (7 POW's); Jack Williams, Sid Hatfield (2KIA); mid air coll w/42-97153 (94BG - 410BS) badly damaging nose, crashed Gelnhausen, Germany. MACR 8840. KAC'S FLAK SHAK aka GREEN HORNETS.

The “Kac 's Flak Shak” (also known as the ”Green Hornets”) was a B-17G bomber assigned to assigned to the 410th Squadron of the 94th Bomb Group of the US Army Air Corp. On 11 Sep., 1944 it collided with the “Daring Doris”, another B-17 assigned to the 333rd Squadron of the 94th Bomb Group. The mid-air collision occured near Frankfurt, Germany - six of the Daring Doris & two of the Kac 's Flak Shak were killed.

George Ostrowski (serial #16116480) Sergeant, 94th BG, US Army Air Corps, (09/11/44-07/21/45) Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (moved to Wobbelin Bei Ludwigslust) (To Usedom Bei Savenmunde) 54-16.