TSG US Army Air Forces
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
He was a member of the US Army Air Forces and a mechanic engineer on a B-17 bomber nicknamed the "Chow Hound". On August 8, 1944, he departed an allied air base in England in their B-17G Flying Fortress with six other crewmen aboard. Their mission was to bomb enemy targets near Caen, France. The aircraft was seen to explode and crash after being struck by enemy flak near the village of Lonlay l'Abbaye, south of Caen. German forces and French villagers living near the crash site recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing US forces found additional remains. Six of the nine crewmen ultimately were identified, but he and two others remained unaccounted for. In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) operating in Luxembourg was informed that a local French aircraft wreckage hunting group (Association Normande du Souvenir Aerien 39/45) had located a crash site near Lonlay l'Abbaye. The JPAC team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials from amid the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs. Later that year, a French explosive ordnance disposal team working to secure the site where the bombs had been found turned over a bone fragment to the US Defense Attache in Paris. Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains of the three missing crew, matching DNA sequences from maternal relatives. Among his military awards and decorations were the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Purple Heart.
Interment on August 24, 2006.
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
He was a member of the US Army Air Forces and a mechanic engineer on a B-17 bomber nicknamed the "Chow Hound". On August 8, 1944, he departed an allied air base in England in their B-17G Flying Fortress with six other crewmen aboard. Their mission was to bomb enemy targets near Caen, France. The aircraft was seen to explode and crash after being struck by enemy flak near the village of Lonlay l'Abbaye, south of Caen. German forces and French villagers living near the crash site recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing US forces found additional remains. Six of the nine crewmen ultimately were identified, but he and two others remained unaccounted for. In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) operating in Luxembourg was informed that a local French aircraft wreckage hunting group (Association Normande du Souvenir Aerien 39/45) had located a crash site near Lonlay l'Abbaye. The JPAC team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials from amid the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs. Later that year, a French explosive ordnance disposal team working to secure the site where the bombs had been found turned over a bone fragment to the US Defense Attache in Paris. Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains of the three missing crew, matching DNA sequences from maternal relatives. Among his military awards and decorations were the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Purple Heart.
Interment on August 24, 2006.
TSG US Army Air Forces
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
He was a member of the US Army Air Forces and a mechanic engineer on a B-17 bomber nicknamed the "Chow Hound". On August 8, 1944, he departed an allied air base in England in their B-17G Flying Fortress with six other crewmen aboard. Their mission was to bomb enemy targets near Caen, France. The aircraft was seen to explode and crash after being struck by enemy flak near the village of Lonlay l'Abbaye, south of Caen. German forces and French villagers living near the crash site recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing US forces found additional remains. Six of the nine crewmen ultimately were identified, but he and two others remained unaccounted for. In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) operating in Luxembourg was informed that a local French aircraft wreckage hunting group (Association Normande du Souvenir Aerien 39/45) had located a crash site near Lonlay l'Abbaye. The JPAC team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials from amid the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs. Later that year, a French explosive ordnance disposal team working to secure the site where the bombs had been found turned over a bone fragment to the US Defense Attache in Paris. Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains of the three missing crew, matching DNA sequences from maternal relatives. Among his military awards and decorations were the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Purple Heart.
Interment on August 24, 2006.
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
He was a member of the US Army Air Forces and a mechanic engineer on a B-17 bomber nicknamed the "Chow Hound". On August 8, 1944, he departed an allied air base in England in their B-17G Flying Fortress with six other crewmen aboard. Their mission was to bomb enemy targets near Caen, France. The aircraft was seen to explode and crash after being struck by enemy flak near the village of Lonlay l'Abbaye, south of Caen. German forces and French villagers living near the crash site recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing US forces found additional remains. Six of the nine crewmen ultimately were identified, but he and two others remained unaccounted for. In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) operating in Luxembourg was informed that a local French aircraft wreckage hunting group (Association Normande du Souvenir Aerien 39/45) had located a crash site near Lonlay l'Abbaye. The JPAC team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials from amid the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs. Later that year, a French explosive ordnance disposal team working to secure the site where the bombs had been found turned over a bone fragment to the US Defense Attache in Paris. Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains of the three missing crew, matching DNA sequences from maternal relatives. Among his military awards and decorations were the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Purple Heart.
Interment on August 24, 2006.
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