Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

On another website (http://hitlernews.cloudworth.com/) there is a recent article on the treatment of blacks in Hitler's Germany. One paragraph refers to an African-American pilot Lieutenant Darwin Nichols, who was sent to a Gestapo prison in Butzbach.
I can find no reference to a Lt. Darwin Nichols but the USAAF MIA website
has a Corporal Darwin O. Nichols, s/n 16188450,AAF, reported MIA May 8,1945[last day of war].

Anyone have more information?

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Wrong guy. Corp Nichols was lost in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

12. Sept. 1944 511/351 Bomb Group 42-97318 Lt. R. C. Lopert - Shot down by fighters. Lt. Robert C. Lopert (POW), Lt. Darwin R. Nichols (KIA), Lt. Fred R. Dahl Jnr. (KIA), Lt. Charles L. Surges (POW), Sgt. Albert M. Sandlin (POW), Sgt. Alton W. Dreyer (POW), Sgt. Jesse Coa (POW), Sgt. Paul Pomeraux (POW), Sgt. Lawrence F. Goodman (POW).

Greetings Peglar

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Kaki-
# 42 - 297318 S " Dina Mite "
Copilot Lt. Darwin Nichols KIA - Portland , Oregon.
Mike

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Right, I found this information on Footnote. Its interesting that Lt. Nichols was reported as POW in the initial MACR report but then was listed as KIA afterwards. Also, I thought that African-American aircrew only served with the 332nd FG not a regular 8th AF Bomber Group.
Just to check this out, I did a Boolean search on the term Negro (old non PC) + "AC" in the NARA data base and came out with about 25 aircrew POWs who were listed as Negro. Lt Darwin Nichols did not turn up on my initial search.

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Copilot Lt. Darwin Nichols from Portland, Oregon was shot down in September 1944 over Berlin, held in a Prison in Giessen and was shot in the last Day in March 1945.

Greetings Peglar

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Lt Darwin Nichols is buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery with date of death 27 March 1945.

Regards,

Leendert

Re: Lt. Darwin Nichols-African-American aircrew?
 

Fallnummer: 12-1457
Tatdatum: 27-03-1945
1 U.S. airman, erschossen in Gefangenschaft, bei Gießen, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen.
1. Grablage: Gießen
2. Grablage: U.S. Military Cemetery Ardennes, Belgien.
2nd Lieutenant Darwin R. Nichols, O-770738 OREG
3. Grablage: U.S. Military Cemetery Ardennes, Belgien.
351st BG(H), 511th BS(H), US 8th AF(H)

Was shot and fell in the Lahn River. Identified in June 1945.
Had been a prisoner in the Gestapo jail at Gießen for about 7 months.

Greetings Peglar