42-40749 B-24 Sack-Time Sally Crewmembers:
1Lt. Roy E. Braly, Pilot, POW. (1919 - 2008)
Capt. Dean H. Dalton, Co-Pilot, KIA.
1Lt. James H. McGahee, Navigator, POW.
1Lt. Merlin H. Verberg, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Virgil Lee Hoffman, Flight Engineer, KIA.
TSgt. Essman G. Matthews, Radio Operator, KIA.
SSgt. John B. Filenger, Gunner, POW.
SSgt. George W. Scott, Gunner, KIA, of Decatur, Macon Co., IL.
SSgt. Walter Eppa Wince, Gunner, KIA.
SSgt. Edward M. Goodall, Waist Gunner, KIA.
Link to the overseas memorial to the crewmembers who died Nov. 26, 1943.
Plan Military Rites For Borough Soldier
Sinking Springs, Dec. 7 - Funeral services for Tech. Sergt. Essman G. Matthews, 24, of this borough, who was killed November 26, 1943, will be held in the F. F. Seidel 2d Funeral Home, this borough, on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. John S. Sowa will officiate. Burial will take place in the Sinking Spring Cemetery with military rites in charge of members of Hunter Liggett Post 38, Veterans of Foreign Wars. A native of Pottsville, he was a son of Earl and Bertha (Brommer) Matthews, of Reading. Before entering the service he was employed at the Berkshire Knitting Mills. He was sent overseas in June. 1943, as a member of the 565th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomber Group, Eighth Air Force, and participated in the aerial bombardment of the Ploesti Oil Refinery, in Romania, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. Shortly after his graduation from Myers High School, Wilks-Barre, he moved to this borough. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, this borough, and its Brotherhood. Surviving are his widow, Emma M. (Krammer) Matthews Moore; his parents; a sister, Lena, wife of Sylvester Auge, of West Reading, and two brothers, Earl O. of Reading, and James D., at home. (The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, Dec. 7, 1948, p. 27, Col. 3)
1Lt. Roy E. Braly, Pilot, POW. (1919 - 2008)
Capt. Dean H. Dalton, Co-Pilot, KIA.
1Lt. James H. McGahee, Navigator, POW.
1Lt. Merlin H. Verberg, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Virgil Lee Hoffman, Flight Engineer, KIA.
TSgt. Essman G. Matthews, Radio Operator, KIA.
SSgt. John B. Filenger, Gunner, POW.
SSgt. George W. Scott, Gunner, KIA, of Decatur, Macon Co., IL.
SSgt. Walter Eppa Wince, Gunner, KIA.
SSgt. Edward M. Goodall, Waist Gunner, KIA.
Link to the overseas memorial to the crewmembers who died Nov. 26, 1943.
Plan Military Rites For Borough Soldier
Sinking Springs, Dec. 7 - Funeral services for Tech. Sergt. Essman G. Matthews, 24, of this borough, who was killed November 26, 1943, will be held in the F. F. Seidel 2d Funeral Home, this borough, on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. John S. Sowa will officiate. Burial will take place in the Sinking Spring Cemetery with military rites in charge of members of Hunter Liggett Post 38, Veterans of Foreign Wars. A native of Pottsville, he was a son of Earl and Bertha (Brommer) Matthews, of Reading. Before entering the service he was employed at the Berkshire Knitting Mills. He was sent overseas in June. 1943, as a member of the 565th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomber Group, Eighth Air Force, and participated in the aerial bombardment of the Ploesti Oil Refinery, in Romania, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. Shortly after his graduation from Myers High School, Wilks-Barre, he moved to this borough. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, this borough, and its Brotherhood. Surviving are his widow, Emma M. (Krammer) Matthews Moore; his parents; a sister, Lena, wife of Sylvester Auge, of West Reading, and two brothers, Earl O. of Reading, and James D., at home. (The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, Dec. 7, 1948, p. 27, Col. 3)
42-40749 B-24 Sack-Time Sally Crewmembers:
1Lt. Roy E. Braly, Pilot, POW. (1919 - 2008)
Capt. Dean H. Dalton, Co-Pilot, KIA.
1Lt. James H. McGahee, Navigator, POW.
1Lt. Merlin H. Verberg, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Virgil Lee Hoffman, Flight Engineer, KIA.
TSgt. Essman G. Matthews, Radio Operator, KIA.
SSgt. John B. Filenger, Gunner, POW.
SSgt. George W. Scott, Gunner, KIA, of Decatur, Macon Co., IL.
SSgt. Walter Eppa Wince, Gunner, KIA.
SSgt. Edward M. Goodall, Waist Gunner, KIA.
Link to the overseas memorial to the crewmembers who died Nov. 26, 1943.
Plan Military Rites For Borough Soldier
Sinking Springs, Dec. 7 - Funeral services for Tech. Sergt. Essman G. Matthews, 24, of this borough, who was killed November 26, 1943, will be held in the F. F. Seidel 2d Funeral Home, this borough, on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. John S. Sowa will officiate. Burial will take place in the Sinking Spring Cemetery with military rites in charge of members of Hunter Liggett Post 38, Veterans of Foreign Wars. A native of Pottsville, he was a son of Earl and Bertha (Brommer) Matthews, of Reading. Before entering the service he was employed at the Berkshire Knitting Mills. He was sent overseas in June. 1943, as a member of the 565th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomber Group, Eighth Air Force, and participated in the aerial bombardment of the Ploesti Oil Refinery, in Romania, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. Shortly after his graduation from Myers High School, Wilks-Barre, he moved to this borough. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, this borough, and its Brotherhood. Surviving are his widow, Emma M. (Krammer) Matthews Moore; his parents; a sister, Lena, wife of Sylvester Auge, of West Reading, and two brothers, Earl O. of Reading, and James D., at home. (The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, Dec. 7, 1948, p. 27, Col. 3)
1Lt. Roy E. Braly, Pilot, POW. (1919 - 2008)
Capt. Dean H. Dalton, Co-Pilot, KIA.
1Lt. James H. McGahee, Navigator, POW.
1Lt. Merlin H. Verberg, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Virgil Lee Hoffman, Flight Engineer, KIA.
TSgt. Essman G. Matthews, Radio Operator, KIA.
SSgt. John B. Filenger, Gunner, POW.
SSgt. George W. Scott, Gunner, KIA, of Decatur, Macon Co., IL.
SSgt. Walter Eppa Wince, Gunner, KIA.
SSgt. Edward M. Goodall, Waist Gunner, KIA.
Link to the overseas memorial to the crewmembers who died Nov. 26, 1943.
Plan Military Rites For Borough Soldier
Sinking Springs, Dec. 7 - Funeral services for Tech. Sergt. Essman G. Matthews, 24, of this borough, who was killed November 26, 1943, will be held in the F. F. Seidel 2d Funeral Home, this borough, on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. John S. Sowa will officiate. Burial will take place in the Sinking Spring Cemetery with military rites in charge of members of Hunter Liggett Post 38, Veterans of Foreign Wars. A native of Pottsville, he was a son of Earl and Bertha (Brommer) Matthews, of Reading. Before entering the service he was employed at the Berkshire Knitting Mills. He was sent overseas in June. 1943, as a member of the 565th Bomber Squadron, 389th Bomber Group, Eighth Air Force, and participated in the aerial bombardment of the Ploesti Oil Refinery, in Romania, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters. Shortly after his graduation from Myers High School, Wilks-Barre, he moved to this borough. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, this borough, and its Brotherhood. Surviving are his widow, Emma M. (Krammer) Matthews Moore; his parents; a sister, Lena, wife of Sylvester Auge, of West Reading, and two brothers, Earl O. of Reading, and James D., at home. (The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, Dec. 7, 1948, p. 27, Col. 3)
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ESSMAN G. MATTHEWS
JULY 18, 1920 - NOV. 26, 1943
T/SGT. 565th BOMB SQDN 389TH BOMB GR.
WORLD WAR II
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