My first cousin; enlisted in Army Air Corps, 28 Oct 1942 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Assigned to 498th Bomber Group from Saipan in World War II. As a left gunner on a B-29 bomber, #44-69747, he was on board when the plane and crew were lost in mission over Tokyo on March 10, 1945. The plane crash occurred on Mt. Wasurezu, Shichigashuku-mura, Miyagi Prefecture on Honshu Island.
Ernest is actually buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Section Q, Site 620. This plot was purchased as a memorial.
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Killed when B-29 Superfortress #44-69747
crashed into Fubo Mountain, Miyagi, Japan, in
bad weather while on mission to Tokyo.
All 11 crew KIA:
2nd Lt. Hubert L Kordsmeier, pilot
2nd Lt. Claude T Dean
1st Lt. Leonard Gottlieb
2nd Lt. Robert L Owens
2nd Lt. Harold R Raybould
S/Sgt. Martin Boskovich
S/Sgt. Ernest L Bretag
S/Sgt. Samuel F. Reneau
Sgt. William E Fry
Sgt. Martin J McMahon, Jr
Sgt. Henry S Solomon
Assigned to 498th Bomber Group from Saipan in World War II. As a left gunner on a B-29 bomber, #44-69747, he was on board when the plane and crew were lost in mission over Tokyo on March 10, 1945. The plane crash occurred on Mt. Wasurezu, Shichigashuku-mura, Miyagi Prefecture on Honshu Island.
Ernest is actually buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Section Q, Site 620. This plot was purchased as a memorial.
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Killed when B-29 Superfortress #44-69747
crashed into Fubo Mountain, Miyagi, Japan, in
bad weather while on mission to Tokyo.
All 11 crew KIA:
2nd Lt. Hubert L Kordsmeier, pilot
2nd Lt. Claude T Dean
1st Lt. Leonard Gottlieb
2nd Lt. Robert L Owens
2nd Lt. Harold R Raybould
S/Sgt. Martin Boskovich
S/Sgt. Ernest L Bretag
S/Sgt. Samuel F. Reneau
Sgt. William E Fry
Sgt. Martin J McMahon, Jr
Sgt. Henry S Solomon
My first cousin; enlisted in Army Air Corps, 28 Oct 1942 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Assigned to 498th Bomber Group from Saipan in World War II. As a left gunner on a B-29 bomber, #44-69747, he was on board when the plane and crew were lost in mission over Tokyo on March 10, 1945. The plane crash occurred on Mt. Wasurezu, Shichigashuku-mura, Miyagi Prefecture on Honshu Island.
Ernest is actually buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Section Q, Site 620. This plot was purchased as a memorial.
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Killed when B-29 Superfortress #44-69747
crashed into Fubo Mountain, Miyagi, Japan, in
bad weather while on mission to Tokyo.
All 11 crew KIA:
2nd Lt. Hubert L Kordsmeier, pilot
2nd Lt. Claude T Dean
1st Lt. Leonard Gottlieb
2nd Lt. Robert L Owens
2nd Lt. Harold R Raybould
S/Sgt. Martin Boskovich
S/Sgt. Ernest L Bretag
S/Sgt. Samuel F. Reneau
Sgt. William E Fry
Sgt. Martin J McMahon, Jr
Sgt. Henry S Solomon
Assigned to 498th Bomber Group from Saipan in World War II. As a left gunner on a B-29 bomber, #44-69747, he was on board when the plane and crew were lost in mission over Tokyo on March 10, 1945. The plane crash occurred on Mt. Wasurezu, Shichigashuku-mura, Miyagi Prefecture on Honshu Island.
Ernest is actually buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, Section Q, Site 620. This plot was purchased as a memorial.
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Killed when B-29 Superfortress #44-69747
crashed into Fubo Mountain, Miyagi, Japan, in
bad weather while on mission to Tokyo.
All 11 crew KIA:
2nd Lt. Hubert L Kordsmeier, pilot
2nd Lt. Claude T Dean
1st Lt. Leonard Gottlieb
2nd Lt. Robert L Owens
2nd Lt. Harold R Raybould
S/Sgt. Martin Boskovich
S/Sgt. Ernest L Bretag
S/Sgt. Samuel F. Reneau
Sgt. William E Fry
Sgt. Martin J McMahon, Jr
Sgt. Henry S Solomon
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1930 United States Federal Census
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1940 United States Federal Census
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U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
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Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
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Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S., National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl), 1941-2011
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