Died in Bombing Mission over Germany.
Son of Jesse Hatch and Helen Frances (Kamm) Hatch.
Burial date: July 1949
Place: Pittsburgh,Allegheny,PA,Jefferson Mem.
Death date: 7 February 1945
Place: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Contributor D'merrill
Source Source type: Government record, Source detail: Death record or certificate, Media type: Microfilm, Title: Map, Author: Lt. Albert Sherman, Publication information: declassified #12090 Missing Air Crew Report, Repository type: Archive, Repository name: National Archeives, DC, Page number: 3, 4, Actual text: 16degree 50'E; 40 degrees 20'N. pos last seen NO CHUTES, Comment: hand drawn map of Ganserndorf/Vienna area east of March River. Last seen B-24 #4 when they collided on route to Polish Oil Fields. Drawn 10 Feb 1945 by pilot flying position #4. page 4 has description of flack & collision. 451st Bombardment 725th Bomb Squadren, tail gunner on plane #5. departed Castellucio. Serial #33424309 . Plane last seen spiraling out of control outside Vienna when another plane was hit and struck this one. MIA changed to KIA on mission report accompanied by map drawn of last known location.
Source type: Published information, Source detail: Family genealogies, Media type: Book, Title: Jesse & Helen Hatch Family, Author: Helen K. Hatch, Publication information: 1994 family published, Repository type: Individual, Repository name: F. Merrill, Repository city: Murray, Repository state: Utah, Repository country: USA, Repository postal code: 84107, Page number: 52, 53, Actual text: his funeral was held in the Pittsburgh Chapel on Wallingford St on July 19, 1949., Comment: body ID four years later Feb 22, 1949. Re-interred stateside at Oak Knoll Garden section, Lot 122 Grave 1 Jeffrson Memorial Park. 401 Curry Hollow Rd, Pittsburgh 15236
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Poland oil fields is phonetic of the Romanian Ploesti Oil Refineries that the 340th and 341st were bombing. The Tuskegee Airmen fighters often were protecting these groups as long as they were within gas range of the fighters. Jesse would write home about the courage of these fighters per contributor tsayrate.
Son of Jesse Hatch and Helen Frances (Kamm) Hatch.
Burial date: July 1949
Place: Pittsburgh,Allegheny,PA,Jefferson Mem.
Death date: 7 February 1945
Place: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Contributor D'merrill
Source Source type: Government record, Source detail: Death record or certificate, Media type: Microfilm, Title: Map, Author: Lt. Albert Sherman, Publication information: declassified #12090 Missing Air Crew Report, Repository type: Archive, Repository name: National Archeives, DC, Page number: 3, 4, Actual text: 16degree 50'E; 40 degrees 20'N. pos last seen NO CHUTES, Comment: hand drawn map of Ganserndorf/Vienna area east of March River. Last seen B-24 #4 when they collided on route to Polish Oil Fields. Drawn 10 Feb 1945 by pilot flying position #4. page 4 has description of flack & collision. 451st Bombardment 725th Bomb Squadren, tail gunner on plane #5. departed Castellucio. Serial #33424309 . Plane last seen spiraling out of control outside Vienna when another plane was hit and struck this one. MIA changed to KIA on mission report accompanied by map drawn of last known location.
Source type: Published information, Source detail: Family genealogies, Media type: Book, Title: Jesse & Helen Hatch Family, Author: Helen K. Hatch, Publication information: 1994 family published, Repository type: Individual, Repository name: F. Merrill, Repository city: Murray, Repository state: Utah, Repository country: USA, Repository postal code: 84107, Page number: 52, 53, Actual text: his funeral was held in the Pittsburgh Chapel on Wallingford St on July 19, 1949., Comment: body ID four years later Feb 22, 1949. Re-interred stateside at Oak Knoll Garden section, Lot 122 Grave 1 Jeffrson Memorial Park. 401 Curry Hollow Rd, Pittsburgh 15236
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Poland oil fields is phonetic of the Romanian Ploesti Oil Refineries that the 340th and 341st were bombing. The Tuskegee Airmen fighters often were protecting these groups as long as they were within gas range of the fighters. Jesse would write home about the courage of these fighters per contributor tsayrate.
Died in Bombing Mission over Germany.
Son of Jesse Hatch and Helen Frances (Kamm) Hatch.
Burial date: July 1949
Place: Pittsburgh,Allegheny,PA,Jefferson Mem.
Death date: 7 February 1945
Place: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Contributor D'merrill
Source Source type: Government record, Source detail: Death record or certificate, Media type: Microfilm, Title: Map, Author: Lt. Albert Sherman, Publication information: declassified #12090 Missing Air Crew Report, Repository type: Archive, Repository name: National Archeives, DC, Page number: 3, 4, Actual text: 16degree 50'E; 40 degrees 20'N. pos last seen NO CHUTES, Comment: hand drawn map of Ganserndorf/Vienna area east of March River. Last seen B-24 #4 when they collided on route to Polish Oil Fields. Drawn 10 Feb 1945 by pilot flying position #4. page 4 has description of flack & collision. 451st Bombardment 725th Bomb Squadren, tail gunner on plane #5. departed Castellucio. Serial #33424309 . Plane last seen spiraling out of control outside Vienna when another plane was hit and struck this one. MIA changed to KIA on mission report accompanied by map drawn of last known location.
Source type: Published information, Source detail: Family genealogies, Media type: Book, Title: Jesse & Helen Hatch Family, Author: Helen K. Hatch, Publication information: 1994 family published, Repository type: Individual, Repository name: F. Merrill, Repository city: Murray, Repository state: Utah, Repository country: USA, Repository postal code: 84107, Page number: 52, 53, Actual text: his funeral was held in the Pittsburgh Chapel on Wallingford St on July 19, 1949., Comment: body ID four years later Feb 22, 1949. Re-interred stateside at Oak Knoll Garden section, Lot 122 Grave 1 Jeffrson Memorial Park. 401 Curry Hollow Rd, Pittsburgh 15236
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Poland oil fields is phonetic of the Romanian Ploesti Oil Refineries that the 340th and 341st were bombing. The Tuskegee Airmen fighters often were protecting these groups as long as they were within gas range of the fighters. Jesse would write home about the courage of these fighters per contributor tsayrate.
Son of Jesse Hatch and Helen Frances (Kamm) Hatch.
Burial date: July 1949
Place: Pittsburgh,Allegheny,PA,Jefferson Mem.
Death date: 7 February 1945
Place: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Contributor D'merrill
Source Source type: Government record, Source detail: Death record or certificate, Media type: Microfilm, Title: Map, Author: Lt. Albert Sherman, Publication information: declassified #12090 Missing Air Crew Report, Repository type: Archive, Repository name: National Archeives, DC, Page number: 3, 4, Actual text: 16degree 50'E; 40 degrees 20'N. pos last seen NO CHUTES, Comment: hand drawn map of Ganserndorf/Vienna area east of March River. Last seen B-24 #4 when they collided on route to Polish Oil Fields. Drawn 10 Feb 1945 by pilot flying position #4. page 4 has description of flack & collision. 451st Bombardment 725th Bomb Squadren, tail gunner on plane #5. departed Castellucio. Serial #33424309 . Plane last seen spiraling out of control outside Vienna when another plane was hit and struck this one. MIA changed to KIA on mission report accompanied by map drawn of last known location.
Source type: Published information, Source detail: Family genealogies, Media type: Book, Title: Jesse & Helen Hatch Family, Author: Helen K. Hatch, Publication information: 1994 family published, Repository type: Individual, Repository name: F. Merrill, Repository city: Murray, Repository state: Utah, Repository country: USA, Repository postal code: 84107, Page number: 52, 53, Actual text: his funeral was held in the Pittsburgh Chapel on Wallingford St on July 19, 1949., Comment: body ID four years later Feb 22, 1949. Re-interred stateside at Oak Knoll Garden section, Lot 122 Grave 1 Jeffrson Memorial Park. 401 Curry Hollow Rd, Pittsburgh 15236
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Poland oil fields is phonetic of the Romanian Ploesti Oil Refineries that the 340th and 341st were bombing. The Tuskegee Airmen fighters often were protecting these groups as long as they were within gas range of the fighters. Jesse would write home about the courage of these fighters per contributor tsayrate.
