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The translation for 1st Lt. LeRoy Blattner's monument reads: In Memory of Crew B26 599 BS 397 BG9 AF on August 3, 1944, at a place called "Migeloup" It lists the nine men who perished on that day. At the very bottom it reads: Died For Our Freedom never forget
"According to army reports and investigations on August 3, 1944, the plane in which he was a crew member crashed in the vicinity of Sceaux-sur-Huisne, Department de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. The plane . . . collided with another in the same formation. Immediately upon crashing, the plane burst into flames and the entire crew of nine men perished. French civilians who arrived at the scene gathered the remains from the plane and surrounding area and buried them in a common grave."1 The remains of the crew were shipped to the United States and reinterred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri.
There is a cenotaph (memorial) for Lt. Blattner in Fairmount Cemetery.
1 Jetmore Republican of September 8, 1949.
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The translation for 1st Lt. LeRoy Blattner's monument reads: In Memory of Crew B26 599 BS 397 BG9 AF on August 3, 1944, at a place called "Migeloup" It lists the nine men who perished on that day. At the very bottom it reads: Died For Our Freedom never forget
"According to army reports and investigations on August 3, 1944, the plane in which he was a crew member crashed in the vicinity of Sceaux-sur-Huisne, Department de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. The plane . . . collided with another in the same formation. Immediately upon crashing, the plane burst into flames and the entire crew of nine men perished. French civilians who arrived at the scene gathered the remains from the plane and surrounding area and buried them in a common grave."1 The remains of the crew were shipped to the United States and reinterred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri.
There is a cenotaph (memorial) for Lt. Blattner in Fairmount Cemetery.
1 Jetmore Republican of September 8, 1949.
Inscription
1LT, 599 AAF BOMB SQ, 397 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
Gravesite Details
Re-interred on September 10, 1949.
Family Members
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Ellen Elizabeth Blattner Bentley
1910–1982
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Sanford David Blattner
1912–2006
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Charlotte Faye Blattner Becker
1915–2019
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Dorothy M Blattner Ideker
1916–2018
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1LT Leroy B. Blattner
1921–1944
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Eugene Thomas Blattner
1923–2017
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Vernon Blattner
1926–1974
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Calvin C. Blattner
1928–2014
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Charles Blattner Jr
1932–1983
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