Killed In Action during Operation Overlord during the invasion of Normandy, France, when C-47A Skytrain #42-100876 was shot down by German forces.
Apparently, the 19 paratroopers aboard made their jump before the transport was hit and crashed, killing the flight crew:
1LT Marvin F Muir, O-541641, IN
2LT Kenneth C Bell, O-705291, IN
2LT John A Mariasy, O-697894, OH
SSGT Clifford L. Burgess , 14140642, GA
SGT Philip Snyder, 13081009, PA
View Cenotaph HERE.
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Enlisted at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27, 1942.
Killed In Action during Operation Overlord during the invasion of Normandy, France, when C-47A Skytrain #42-100876 was shot down by German forces.
Apparently, the 19 paratroopers aboard made their jump before the transport was hit and crashed, killing the flight crew:
1LT Marvin F Muir, O-541641, IN
2LT Kenneth C Bell, O-705291, IN
2LT John A Mariasy, O-697894, OH
SSGT Clifford L. Burgess , 14140642, GA
SGT Philip Snyder, 13081009, PA
View Cenotaph HERE.
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Enlisted at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27, 1942.
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