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Sgt Robert L Rakouska

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Sgt Robert L Rakouska Veteran

Birth
Death
2 Nov 1944 (aged 22)
Burial
Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Plot: C Row: 7 Grave: 7
Memorial ID
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Sergeant, 735 AAF Bomb Squadron, 453 Bomb
Group, World War II.

Shot down by flak aboard B-24H Liberator
#42-64469 "EL-FLACO" on the aircraft's 78th
mission, a mission to bomb oil refineries at
Castrop-Rauxel, and crashed at Luenen-Sud,
Germany.

10 crew KIA:

2nd Lt. Carl Isaksen
2nd Lt. Earl L. Johnson
2nd Lt. Malcolm H. Rubin
2nd Lt. Vanig Vartanian
Sgt. Edwin W. Bringardner, Jr.
Sgt. James A. Dietrich
Sgt. Robert L. Perrin
Sgt. James E. Phillips
Sgt. Robert L. Rakouska
Sgt. Dewey D. Steele

Submitted by Tim Cook
Sergeant, 735 AAF Bomb Squadron, 453 Bomb
Group, World War II.

Shot down by flak aboard B-24H Liberator
#42-64469 "EL-FLACO" on the aircraft's 78th
mission, a mission to bomb oil refineries at
Castrop-Rauxel, and crashed at Luenen-Sud,
Germany.

10 crew KIA:

2nd Lt. Carl Isaksen
2nd Lt. Earl L. Johnson
2nd Lt. Malcolm H. Rubin
2nd Lt. Vanig Vartanian
Sgt. Edwin W. Bringardner, Jr.
Sgt. James A. Dietrich
Sgt. Robert L. Perrin
Sgt. James E. Phillips
Sgt. Robert L. Rakouska
Sgt. Dewey D. Steele

Submitted by Tim Cook

Inscription

SGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Illinois.


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  • Maintained by: Bonnie1man
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56360440/robert_l-rakouska: accessed ), memorial page for Sgt Robert L Rakouska (21 Jun 1922–2 Nov 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56360440, citing Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium; Maintained by Bonnie1man (contributor 47453113).