World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
William Howard Fossey
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Woburn, Massachusetts
Honored By
William Fossey, Stephen Fossey, Mary Ann Macdonald
Relationship
Children
SERVED FROM 21 DECEMBER 1942 TO 20 SEPTEMBER 1945. RADIO OPERATOR WITH THE 463RD BOMB GROUP 775TH BOMB SQUADRON OF THE 15TH AIR FORCE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS. FLEW COMBAT MISSIONS FROM 18 MARCH 1944 TO 24 MAY 1944. SHOT DOWN OVER YUGOSLAVIA (NOW SLOVENIA) AND TAKEN PRISONER DURING 24TH MISSION. HELD AS A PRISONER OF WAR IN STALAG LUFT IV, GROSS TYCHOW POMERANIA FROM 6 JUNE 1944 TO 31 JANUARY 1945. STALAG LUFT III (STALAG XIIID) IN NUREMBERG GERMANY FROM 6 FEBRUARY TO 4 APRIL. FINALLY, ARRIVED STALAG VIIA MOOSBURG GERMANY ON 16 APRIL 1945 AND LIBERATED 29 APRIL 1945.