Information below gleaned from ancestry.com via newspapers.com from THE MANHATTAN (KAN.) REPUBLIC, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944 edition, PAGE 6

RANDOLPH MAN LOST IN FRANCE
RANDOLPH, June 7----Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hagenmaier, of Randolph, received word Wednesday June 7, that their son, Staff Sgt. Ralph G(C). Hagenmaier has been missing in action over France since May 27.
He has been in the army since February 24, 1941. He transferred to the Army Air Corps in September 1943, from Camp Rucker, Ala., to Harlingen Army airfield, Texas.
He has been stationed in England since April as a waist gunner on a Liberator bomber.
Previous to going overseas, Hagenmeier took training at Camp Robinson, Ark., was several months in California, on maneuvers in Tennessee, received his wings at Harlingen, Tex., was stationed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at Sioux City, Ia. He is unmarried.

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #37002735
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Purple Heart

Ralph C. Hagenmaier is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Riley County, Kansas.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Randolph, Riley County, Kansas. Contact person listed as W. H. Hagenmaier (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Randolph, Riley County, Kansas on 10/28/1913. Self-employed on farm as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

Information below gleaned from: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/ralph-c-hagenmaier

The crew of B-17G-50-BO Flying Fortress #42-102515 on the day she went down after a collision with B-17 #42-97269 was:

(Pilot) 1/LT Joseph Borkowski--KIA
(Co-pilot) 2/LT Walter Hester--KIA
(Navigator) F/O William Ahearn--KIA
(Bombardier) 1/LT Theodore Ream--KIA
(Ball Turret Gunner) T/SGT William Anderson--KIA
(Waist Gunner) S/SGT Ralph Bazzell--KIA
(Tail Gunner) S/SGT Wallace Young--POW
(Radio Operator) S/SGT Ernest Grant--Evaded
(Waist Gunner) S/SGT Ralph Hagenmaier--KIA
(Flight Engineer) T/SGT Ross Welch--KIA

Plane crashed at Massards Farm, Villy le Haut, nine miles SE of Le Treport, France. Missing Air Crew Report 5163.

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