P-38J Lighting Fighter Serial #42-67878, in the 20th Fighter Group (The Loco Busters), 55th Fighter Squadron.
Missing Air Crew Report #2665.
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Name: Otto A Quiring
Father: John R Quiring
Mother: Mary Quiring
Home in 1930: Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
Enlistment Date: 13 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Cemetery Name: Margraten (Permanent Cemetery), Margraten, Holland
Grave number: a 6 7
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 753733
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Printing and publishing clerks, n.e.c
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 72 (6 Ft 0 in) or 183 cm
Weight: 152 (lb) or 69 kg
Statement from Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps.
I certify that I, Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps, had contacted Otto A. Quiring, 2nd Lt., Air Corps, in p-38j-10-L0, 42-67878 by radio over enemy territory on 24 February 1944, at approximately 1400 hours at which time his airplane left our formation and joined up with the bombers. I was beyond Schweinfurt, on the return trip, at 27,000 feet, going Northwest. Lt Quiring called on the radio and said that he was down to 30 gallons of gasoline in each reserve tank, plus his main tanks, and wanted to know what to do. "Denton" answered and said for the ship that was low on gasoline to join the bombers. Towntalk Leader said "Did you get that, Bleu two?" "Bleu two, Lt Quiring, replied that he understood. Then I called and told him to be sure to identify himself to the bombers before joining them. He replied "Roger" to my call. I looked back to Blue Flight, and saw a single airplane going down towards the box of B-24's. 1st Lt. W.B. Taylor, Leader of Blue Flight, reported seeing Lt. Quiring leave Blue Flight, and join a high box of B-17's. The B-24's were apparently part of the first Air Task Force and the B-17's were a part of the last Combat Wing of the Second Air Task Force. The weather at the time of my last contact with the airplane was CAVU."
Lt. Quiring ran out gas near Schluctern-Hessen, Germany.
Between February 20 and February 25, 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive, the USAAF launched Operation Argument, a series of missions against the Third Reich that became known as "Big Week". As the American planners had intended, the Luftwaffe was lured into a decisive battle for air superiority through launching massive attacks by the bombers of the USAAF, protected by squadrons of Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and North American P-51 Mustangs, on the German aircraft industry. In defeating the Luftwaffe, the Allies achieved air superiority and the invasion of Western Europe could proceed.
More info at Adopt A Grave-Netherlands
Missing Air Crew Report #2665.
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Name: Otto A Quiring
Father: John R Quiring
Mother: Mary Quiring
Home in 1930: Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
Enlistment Date: 13 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Cemetery Name: Margraten (Permanent Cemetery), Margraten, Holland
Grave number: a 6 7
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 753733
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Printing and publishing clerks, n.e.c
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 72 (6 Ft 0 in) or 183 cm
Weight: 152 (lb) or 69 kg
Statement from Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps.
I certify that I, Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps, had contacted Otto A. Quiring, 2nd Lt., Air Corps, in p-38j-10-L0, 42-67878 by radio over enemy territory on 24 February 1944, at approximately 1400 hours at which time his airplane left our formation and joined up with the bombers. I was beyond Schweinfurt, on the return trip, at 27,000 feet, going Northwest. Lt Quiring called on the radio and said that he was down to 30 gallons of gasoline in each reserve tank, plus his main tanks, and wanted to know what to do. "Denton" answered and said for the ship that was low on gasoline to join the bombers. Towntalk Leader said "Did you get that, Bleu two?" "Bleu two, Lt Quiring, replied that he understood. Then I called and told him to be sure to identify himself to the bombers before joining them. He replied "Roger" to my call. I looked back to Blue Flight, and saw a single airplane going down towards the box of B-24's. 1st Lt. W.B. Taylor, Leader of Blue Flight, reported seeing Lt. Quiring leave Blue Flight, and join a high box of B-17's. The B-24's were apparently part of the first Air Task Force and the B-17's were a part of the last Combat Wing of the Second Air Task Force. The weather at the time of my last contact with the airplane was CAVU."
Lt. Quiring ran out gas near Schluctern-Hessen, Germany.
Between February 20 and February 25, 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive, the USAAF launched Operation Argument, a series of missions against the Third Reich that became known as "Big Week". As the American planners had intended, the Luftwaffe was lured into a decisive battle for air superiority through launching massive attacks by the bombers of the USAAF, protected by squadrons of Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and North American P-51 Mustangs, on the German aircraft industry. In defeating the Luftwaffe, the Allies achieved air superiority and the invasion of Western Europe could proceed.
More info at Adopt A Grave-Netherlands
P-38J Lighting Fighter Serial #42-67878, in the 20th Fighter Group (The Loco Busters), 55th Fighter Squadron.
Missing Air Crew Report #2665.
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Name: Otto A Quiring
Father: John R Quiring
Mother: Mary Quiring
Home in 1930: Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
Enlistment Date: 13 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Cemetery Name: Margraten (Permanent Cemetery), Margraten, Holland
Grave number: a 6 7
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 753733
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Printing and publishing clerks, n.e.c
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 72 (6 Ft 0 in) or 183 cm
Weight: 152 (lb) or 69 kg
Statement from Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps.
I certify that I, Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps, had contacted Otto A. Quiring, 2nd Lt., Air Corps, in p-38j-10-L0, 42-67878 by radio over enemy territory on 24 February 1944, at approximately 1400 hours at which time his airplane left our formation and joined up with the bombers. I was beyond Schweinfurt, on the return trip, at 27,000 feet, going Northwest. Lt Quiring called on the radio and said that he was down to 30 gallons of gasoline in each reserve tank, plus his main tanks, and wanted to know what to do. "Denton" answered and said for the ship that was low on gasoline to join the bombers. Towntalk Leader said "Did you get that, Bleu two?" "Bleu two, Lt Quiring, replied that he understood. Then I called and told him to be sure to identify himself to the bombers before joining them. He replied "Roger" to my call. I looked back to Blue Flight, and saw a single airplane going down towards the box of B-24's. 1st Lt. W.B. Taylor, Leader of Blue Flight, reported seeing Lt. Quiring leave Blue Flight, and join a high box of B-17's. The B-24's were apparently part of the first Air Task Force and the B-17's were a part of the last Combat Wing of the Second Air Task Force. The weather at the time of my last contact with the airplane was CAVU."
Lt. Quiring ran out gas near Schluctern-Hessen, Germany.
Between February 20 and February 25, 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive, the USAAF launched Operation Argument, a series of missions against the Third Reich that became known as "Big Week". As the American planners had intended, the Luftwaffe was lured into a decisive battle for air superiority through launching massive attacks by the bombers of the USAAF, protected by squadrons of Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and North American P-51 Mustangs, on the German aircraft industry. In defeating the Luftwaffe, the Allies achieved air superiority and the invasion of Western Europe could proceed.
More info at Adopt A Grave-Netherlands
Missing Air Crew Report #2665.
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Name: Otto A Quiring
Father: John R Quiring
Mother: Mary Quiring
Home in 1930: Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
Enlistment Date: 13 Mar 1941
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Cemetery Name: Margraten (Permanent Cemetery), Margraten, Holland
Grave number: a 6 7
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: 753733
Education: 4 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Printing and publishing clerks, n.e.c
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 72 (6 Ft 0 in) or 183 cm
Weight: 152 (lb) or 69 kg
Statement from Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps.
I certify that I, Donald H. McAuley, Captain, Air Corps, had contacted Otto A. Quiring, 2nd Lt., Air Corps, in p-38j-10-L0, 42-67878 by radio over enemy territory on 24 February 1944, at approximately 1400 hours at which time his airplane left our formation and joined up with the bombers. I was beyond Schweinfurt, on the return trip, at 27,000 feet, going Northwest. Lt Quiring called on the radio and said that he was down to 30 gallons of gasoline in each reserve tank, plus his main tanks, and wanted to know what to do. "Denton" answered and said for the ship that was low on gasoline to join the bombers. Towntalk Leader said "Did you get that, Bleu two?" "Bleu two, Lt Quiring, replied that he understood. Then I called and told him to be sure to identify himself to the bombers before joining them. He replied "Roger" to my call. I looked back to Blue Flight, and saw a single airplane going down towards the box of B-24's. 1st Lt. W.B. Taylor, Leader of Blue Flight, reported seeing Lt. Quiring leave Blue Flight, and join a high box of B-17's. The B-24's were apparently part of the first Air Task Force and the B-17's were a part of the last Combat Wing of the Second Air Task Force. The weather at the time of my last contact with the airplane was CAVU."
Lt. Quiring ran out gas near Schluctern-Hessen, Germany.
Between February 20 and February 25, 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive, the USAAF launched Operation Argument, a series of missions against the Third Reich that became known as "Big Week". As the American planners had intended, the Luftwaffe was lured into a decisive battle for air superiority through launching massive attacks by the bombers of the USAAF, protected by squadrons of Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and North American P-51 Mustangs, on the German aircraft industry. In defeating the Luftwaffe, the Allies achieved air superiority and the invasion of Western Europe could proceed.
More info at Adopt A Grave-Netherlands
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OTTO A QUIRING 2LT 55 FTR SQ 20 FTR GP CALIFORNIA FEB 24, 1944
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