William served as a First Lieutenant & Pilot on B-29 #44-69752, 873rd Bomber Squadron, 498th Bomber Group, Very Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
He resided in Pennsylvania prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 25, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Salesperson and also as Single, without dependents.
William's B-29 was assigned to mission 51 along with 114 other B-29's that were dispatched to attack the Nakajima aircraft plant in Tokyo during the war.
William was "Killed In Action" when his B-29 was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery while over the target area, and crashed in Japan during the war..
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service ID: O-800340.
The reason he is named on a group headstone is because when soldier's were killed in close proximity to each other they were unable, at that time, to identify them separately and interred their remains together in one grave.
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Airmen who perished on B-29 #44-69752:
Bordwell, Marion E ~ S/Sgt, AR
Dubb, Norman ~ 1st Lt, CA
Filbert, William E ~ 1st Lt, Pilot, PA
Gerber, Herman W ~ Sgt, IN
Guarino, August J ~ Sgt, Unknown
Harman, Nelson L ~ FO, PA
Jahn, Frank T ~ 1st Lt, DC
Pitts, Wallace J ~ S/Sgt, TN
Rudofsky, Edward M ~ 1st Lt, MA
Sandquist, Russell W ~ T/Sgt, CT
Tuttle, Fay H ~ Sgt, IL
( Bio & Crew Report by: Russell S. "Russ" Pickett )
William served as a First Lieutenant & Pilot on B-29 #44-69752, 873rd Bomber Squadron, 498th Bomber Group, Very Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
He resided in Pennsylvania prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 25, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Salesperson and also as Single, without dependents.
William's B-29 was assigned to mission 51 along with 114 other B-29's that were dispatched to attack the Nakajima aircraft plant in Tokyo during the war.
William was "Killed In Action" when his B-29 was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery while over the target area, and crashed in Japan during the war..
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
Service ID: O-800340.
The reason he is named on a group headstone is because when soldier's were killed in close proximity to each other they were unable, at that time, to identify them separately and interred their remains together in one grave.
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Airmen who perished on B-29 #44-69752:
Bordwell, Marion E ~ S/Sgt, AR
Dubb, Norman ~ 1st Lt, CA
Filbert, William E ~ 1st Lt, Pilot, PA
Gerber, Herman W ~ Sgt, IN
Guarino, August J ~ Sgt, Unknown
Harman, Nelson L ~ FO, PA
Jahn, Frank T ~ 1st Lt, DC
Pitts, Wallace J ~ S/Sgt, TN
Rudofsky, Edward M ~ 1st Lt, MA
Sandquist, Russell W ~ T/Sgt, CT
Tuttle, Fay H ~ Sgt, IL
( Bio & Crew Report by: Russell S. "Russ" Pickett )
Inscription
1LT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
Gravesite Details
Originally interred in the Yokohama Cemetery #1 in Japan and was later repatriated here on January 19, 1949.
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