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2LT Oscar Lee Koegel
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2LT Oscar Lee Koegel

Birth
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, USA
Death
10 Sep 1943 (aged 22)
At Sea
Cenotaph
Gotha, Orange County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Killed when U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-6031 collided mid air with B-17F #42-4621 over the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, while on a training flight out of the Alexandria, Louisiana, Army Airfield. Twenty-one other Army service members also perished.


Lost in Air Crash in Gulf of Mexico:

Capt. Henry A Lewis

1Lt. Robert H Smith

2Lt. Paul Bradnan

2Lt. George J Long

2Lt. Alva W Redding

2Lt. Oscar L Koegel

2Lt. Oscar A. Bennett

2Lt. James J Palack

2Lt. Stevenson A Williams

SSgt. John E Linam

Sgt. John F Arrillaga

Sgt. Joe T Barron

Sgt. Howard J Code

Sgt. William B Culp

Sgt. John T Loften

Sgt. Jack L Stewart

Sgt. William P Pine

Sgt. Reinhold Kubarth

Sgt. William W Volkmer

Sgt. Richard E Royer

Sgt. Billie J Smith

Sgt. Charles L Findley

Killed when U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-6031 collided mid air with B-17F #42-4621 over the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, while on a training flight out of the Alexandria, Louisiana, Army Airfield. Twenty-one other Army service members also perished.


Lost in Air Crash in Gulf of Mexico:

Capt. Henry A Lewis

1Lt. Robert H Smith

2Lt. Paul Bradnan

2Lt. George J Long

2Lt. Alva W Redding

2Lt. Oscar L Koegel

2Lt. Oscar A. Bennett

2Lt. James J Palack

2Lt. Stevenson A Williams

SSgt. John E Linam

Sgt. John F Arrillaga

Sgt. Joe T Barron

Sgt. Howard J Code

Sgt. William B Culp

Sgt. John T Loften

Sgt. Jack L Stewart

Sgt. William P Pine

Sgt. Reinhold Kubarth

Sgt. William W Volkmer

Sgt. Richard E Royer

Sgt. Billie J Smith

Sgt. Charles L Findley


Inscription

FLORIDA
2D LT 796 BOMB SQ AAF
WORLD WAR II



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