World War II Honoree

Michael J. Glenn

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Cleveland, Ohio

Honored By

323rd Bomb Group Historian

Relationship

Bomb Group Historian

Radioman with the 323rd Bomb Group 454th Squadron and completed 47 combat missions. On April 18, 1944 while bombing the Dunkirk Railroad and gun batteries the B-26 he was flying, PaPa DeDe serial number 41-35006 coded RJ-T collided with another B-26 which had been hit by a flak burst in the nose. PaPa DeDe went into an immediate spin and crashed. He was the sole survivor of his crew but became a POW spending the rest of WWII in Stalag 17B located at Krems Austria.