TEC5 USAAF WWII
Co B, 63rd Sig Opn Bn
ASN 37618597
He was the son of Paul and Emma 'Dorothea' Hentschke. His residence was Saint Louis, Missouri. He had a brother Gerhard P Hentschke. He married Irmgard Funk.
He enlisted in the service 12 July 1943 in Missouri, and had completed one year of college at that time, and was a machinist in his civilian life. He served in the Signal Corps.
He worked as a civilian employee for Western Electric Company via contract with the United States Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Kurt Hentschke was killed when a transport type aircraft, C-47A #43-15594 crashed on Sitkinak Island, Alaska, 29 June 1955, while on a flight out of Kodiak Naval Air Station, Alaska, to drop fuel supplies at the government/military outpost located on the island. He was one of three civilians on board. The plane was circling to pinpoint the supply drop location when it experienced a downdraft from the nearby ridge of mountains, and the aircraft did not have sufficient speed to maintain altitude.
Ten men in total gave their lives that day, seven military and three civilians.
The military men were:
Capt. Sumner M. Alpert,
Second Lt. Tullie Warren Moore,
PFC Thomas M. Gravel,
A/2C Harold D. Bohm,
SFC John Murl Claxton,
A/1C George William Hart, and
Cpl Richard Langdon.
The civilians were employees of Western Electric Company:
Louis Julius Houck,
Kurt Alfred Hentschke, Sr., and
John Joseph Dupre.
NOTE: Thank you to everyone who has helped me locate all these men especially B24CoPilotNiece for supplying much of this information and for helping me in my research. Visit her contributor page for other military information.
Co B, 63rd Sig Opn Bn
ASN 37618597
He was the son of Paul and Emma 'Dorothea' Hentschke. His residence was Saint Louis, Missouri. He had a brother Gerhard P Hentschke. He married Irmgard Funk.
He enlisted in the service 12 July 1943 in Missouri, and had completed one year of college at that time, and was a machinist in his civilian life. He served in the Signal Corps.
He worked as a civilian employee for Western Electric Company via contract with the United States Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Kurt Hentschke was killed when a transport type aircraft, C-47A #43-15594 crashed on Sitkinak Island, Alaska, 29 June 1955, while on a flight out of Kodiak Naval Air Station, Alaska, to drop fuel supplies at the government/military outpost located on the island. He was one of three civilians on board. The plane was circling to pinpoint the supply drop location when it experienced a downdraft from the nearby ridge of mountains, and the aircraft did not have sufficient speed to maintain altitude.
Ten men in total gave their lives that day, seven military and three civilians.
The military men were:
Capt. Sumner M. Alpert,
Second Lt. Tullie Warren Moore,
PFC Thomas M. Gravel,
A/2C Harold D. Bohm,
SFC John Murl Claxton,
A/1C George William Hart, and
Cpl Richard Langdon.
The civilians were employees of Western Electric Company:
Louis Julius Houck,
Kurt Alfred Hentschke, Sr., and
John Joseph Dupre.
NOTE: Thank you to everyone who has helped me locate all these men especially B24CoPilotNiece for supplying much of this information and for helping me in my research. Visit her contributor page for other military information.
TEC5 USAAF WWII
Co B, 63rd Sig Opn Bn
ASN 37618597
He was the son of Paul and Emma 'Dorothea' Hentschke. His residence was Saint Louis, Missouri. He had a brother Gerhard P Hentschke. He married Irmgard Funk.
He enlisted in the service 12 July 1943 in Missouri, and had completed one year of college at that time, and was a machinist in his civilian life. He served in the Signal Corps.
He worked as a civilian employee for Western Electric Company via contract with the United States Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Kurt Hentschke was killed when a transport type aircraft, C-47A #43-15594 crashed on Sitkinak Island, Alaska, 29 June 1955, while on a flight out of Kodiak Naval Air Station, Alaska, to drop fuel supplies at the government/military outpost located on the island. He was one of three civilians on board. The plane was circling to pinpoint the supply drop location when it experienced a downdraft from the nearby ridge of mountains, and the aircraft did not have sufficient speed to maintain altitude.
Ten men in total gave their lives that day, seven military and three civilians.
The military men were:
Capt. Sumner M. Alpert,
Second Lt. Tullie Warren Moore,
PFC Thomas M. Gravel,
A/2C Harold D. Bohm,
SFC John Murl Claxton,
A/1C George William Hart, and
Cpl Richard Langdon.
The civilians were employees of Western Electric Company:
Louis Julius Houck,
Kurt Alfred Hentschke, Sr., and
John Joseph Dupre.
NOTE: Thank you to everyone who has helped me locate all these men especially B24CoPilotNiece for supplying much of this information and for helping me in my research. Visit her contributor page for other military information.
Co B, 63rd Sig Opn Bn
ASN 37618597
He was the son of Paul and Emma 'Dorothea' Hentschke. His residence was Saint Louis, Missouri. He had a brother Gerhard P Hentschke. He married Irmgard Funk.
He enlisted in the service 12 July 1943 in Missouri, and had completed one year of college at that time, and was a machinist in his civilian life. He served in the Signal Corps.
He worked as a civilian employee for Western Electric Company via contract with the United States Air Force, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Kurt Hentschke was killed when a transport type aircraft, C-47A #43-15594 crashed on Sitkinak Island, Alaska, 29 June 1955, while on a flight out of Kodiak Naval Air Station, Alaska, to drop fuel supplies at the government/military outpost located on the island. He was one of three civilians on board. The plane was circling to pinpoint the supply drop location when it experienced a downdraft from the nearby ridge of mountains, and the aircraft did not have sufficient speed to maintain altitude.
Ten men in total gave their lives that day, seven military and three civilians.
The military men were:
Capt. Sumner M. Alpert,
Second Lt. Tullie Warren Moore,
PFC Thomas M. Gravel,
A/2C Harold D. Bohm,
SFC John Murl Claxton,
A/1C George William Hart, and
Cpl Richard Langdon.
The civilians were employees of Western Electric Company:
Louis Julius Houck,
Kurt Alfred Hentschke, Sr., and
John Joseph Dupre.
NOTE: Thank you to everyone who has helped me locate all these men especially B24CoPilotNiece for supplying much of this information and for helping me in my research. Visit her contributor page for other military information.
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