VANCE, Ira Earnest Jr.

Name: Ira Earnest VANCE Jr.

Born  13 September 1919

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri

Age at arrival in Buchenwald: 24

Died 22 January 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, age 57

Service: USAAF

Service ID: O-812332

Service Rank: 1st Lieutenant

Duties: Copilot

Air Group: 9th Air Force, 397th Bomb Group, 598th Bomb Squadron

Airbase: Rivenhall, Essex UK

Aircraft: B-26 43-34116

Date shot down: 4 August 1944

Fate of crew: 1 KIA, 2 captured on landing, 3 evaded, two of them later captured (RYHERD and Vance).

Evasion summary:

Date captured: 10 August 1944

Capture summary: Arrested with RHYHERD in Paris.

Boxcar Transport: 15-20 August 1944, in boxcar #1 or #2

Buchenwald ID: 78360

Notes on Buchenwald internment:

Transferred from Buchenwald to: Stalag Luft III, North Compound

Kriege ID: 8157

Notes on SLIII internment:

Subsequent transfer to: Stalag XIII-D, Nurnberg.

Notes on internment: Forced march and boxcar to Stalag VIIA 2-16 April 1945.

Liberation: 29 April 1945 by units of the 14th Armored Division from Patton’s Third Army.

Repatriation from ETO:

Discharged:

VA status:

Notes on Post-War period: