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Homer Frederick Ausman

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Homer Frederick Ausman

Birth
Greene County, Indiana, USA
Death
8 May 1944 (aged 26)
England
Burial
Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Part 3 Row 1
Memorial ID
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Initially interred at Cambridge England. Remains moved to Linton in July 1948.

Flight Oficer on Consolidated a B-24 Liberator Eighth Air Force

U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II Combat Chronology 1941-1945 records missions for that day:
During the morning 378 B-17's bomb Berlin, 287 B-24's and 49 B-17's strike aircraft factories near Brunswick, and 29 HBs attack Brandenburg and scattered T/Os in the area; 36 bmrs are lost on these raids. In afternoon 52 B-17's bomb 1 V-weapon site at Sottevast, 29 B-17's bomb sites at La Glacerie, and 56 B-24's bomb M/Ys at Brussels, with 5 HBs being lost in these afternoon operations.
Initially interred at Cambridge England. Remains moved to Linton in July 1948.

Flight Oficer on Consolidated a B-24 Liberator Eighth Air Force

U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II Combat Chronology 1941-1945 records missions for that day:
During the morning 378 B-17's bomb Berlin, 287 B-24's and 49 B-17's strike aircraft factories near Brunswick, and 29 HBs attack Brandenburg and scattered T/Os in the area; 36 bmrs are lost on these raids. In afternoon 52 B-17's bomb 1 V-weapon site at Sottevast, 29 B-17's bomb sites at La Glacerie, and 56 B-24's bomb M/Ys at Brussels, with 5 HBs being lost in these afternoon operations.

Gravesite Details

Flt Officer US Army Air Corps; killed in action over England



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