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SGT Alfred Vargas

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SGT Alfred Vargas

Birth
Death
20 Jul 1944 (aged 20)
Germany
Burial
East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Grave 13, Lot 74, Section H (Sacred Heart Section)
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Aerial gunner aboard B-17F Flying Fortress

#42-5228, serving with the 738th Bomb

Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, San Giovanni

Field, Cerignola, Italy.


Lost on mission over Friedrichshafen,

Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 6971.


Note: MACR has this aircraft listed as a B-24H

model. But this does not match manufacturer

serial number lists. B-24H #42-52280 appears

to have been lost on an earlier date over the

Adriatic Sea.


Killed In Action were:


1LT. Charles H Hilton, pilot

1LT Howard R McMillan, co-pilot

1LT Clayton D Bereman, navigator

2LT Arthur M Scott, bombadier

SSGT Willis E Block, aerial gunner

SSGT Joe H Holtby, radio operator/gunner

SGT Herbert E Brown, armorer/gunner

SGT Gorman J Scully, aerial gunner

SGT Charles J Stryzewski, Jr, gunner

SGT Alfred Vargas, aerial gunner


The other names on the cemetery marker were

from a different aircraft, B-24H #42-52722,

MACR 7030, lost on the same mission.


The men lost on that flight were (in part):


CAPT William D Jernigan

CAPT Wallace D White

1LT Joseph C Sampsell

1LT Thomas E Moore

TSGT Lawrence F Franche

SSGT Eric A Finstrom

CPL Emanuel Geier

Aerial gunner aboard B-17F Flying Fortress

#42-5228, serving with the 738th Bomb

Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, San Giovanni

Field, Cerignola, Italy.


Lost on mission over Friedrichshafen,

Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 6971.


Note: MACR has this aircraft listed as a B-24H

model. But this does not match manufacturer

serial number lists. B-24H #42-52280 appears

to have been lost on an earlier date over the

Adriatic Sea.


Killed In Action were:


1LT. Charles H Hilton, pilot

1LT Howard R McMillan, co-pilot

1LT Clayton D Bereman, navigator

2LT Arthur M Scott, bombadier

SSGT Willis E Block, aerial gunner

SSGT Joe H Holtby, radio operator/gunner

SGT Herbert E Brown, armorer/gunner

SGT Gorman J Scully, aerial gunner

SGT Charles J Stryzewski, Jr, gunner

SGT Alfred Vargas, aerial gunner


The other names on the cemetery marker were

from a different aircraft, B-24H #42-52722,

MACR 7030, lost on the same mission.


The men lost on that flight were (in part):


CAPT William D Jernigan

CAPT Wallace D White

1LT Joseph C Sampsell

1LT Thomas E Moore

TSGT Lawrence F Franche

SSGT Eric A Finstrom

CPL Emanuel Geier

Inscription

SGT, 738 AAF BOMB SQ, 454 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II

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