Navigator 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 Wallace D White
1LT Thomas E Moore
TSGT Lawrence F Franche
SSGT Eric A Finstrom
CPL Emanuel Geier
Navigator 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 Wallace D White
1LT Thomas E Moore
TSGT Lawrence F Franche
SSGT Eric A Finstrom
CPL Emanuel Geier
Inscription
1LT, 738 AAF BOMB SQ, 454 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
Gravesite Details
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Butler County, Kansas...Finding Of Death...Re-interred on 11/28/1950.
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