Aerial gunner aboard B-17F Flying Fortress
#42-5228, serving with the 738th Bomb
Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, San Giovanni
Field, Cerignola, Italy.
Lost on mission over Friedrichshafen,
Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 6971.
Note: MACR has this aircraft listed as a B-24H
model. But this does not match manufacturer
serial number lists. B-24H #42-52280 appears
to have been lost on an earlier date over the
Adriatic Sea.
Killed In Action were:
1LT. Charles H Hilton, pilot
1LT Howard R McMillan, co-pilot
1LT Clayton D Bereman, navigator
2LT Arthur M Scott, bombadier
SSGT Willis E Block, aerial gunner
SSGT Joe H Holtby, radio operator/gunner
SGT Herbert E Brown, armorer/gunner
SGT Gorman J Scully, aerial gunner
SGT Charles J Stryzewski, Jr, gunner
SGT Alfred Vargas, aerial gunner
The other names on the cemetery marker were
from a different aircraft, B-24H #42-52722,
MACR 7030, lost on the same mission.
The men lost on that flight were (in part):
CAPT Wallace D White
1LT Thomas E Moore
TSGT Lawrence F Franche
SSGT Eric A Finstrom
CPL Emanuel Geier
Aerial gunner aboard B-17F Flying Fortress
#42-5228, serving with the 738th Bomb
Squadron, 454th Bomb Group, San Giovanni
Field, Cerignola, Italy.
Lost on mission over Friedrichshafen,
Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 6971.
Note: MACR has this aircraft listed as a B-24H
model. But this does not match manufacturer
serial number lists. B-24H #42-52280 appears
to have been lost on an earlier date over the
Adriatic Sea.
Killed In Action were:
1LT. Charles H Hilton, pilot
1LT Howard R McMillan, co-pilot
1LT Clayton D Bereman, navigator
2LT Arthur M Scott, bombadier
SSGT Willis E Block, aerial gunner
SSGT Joe H Holtby, radio operator/gunner
SGT Herbert E Brown, armorer/gunner
SGT Gorman J Scully, aerial gunner
SGT Charles J Stryzewski, Jr, gunner
SGT Alfred Vargas, aerial gunner
The other names on the cemetery marker were
from a different aircraft, B-24H #42-52722,
MACR 7030, lost on the same mission.
The men lost on that flight were (in part):
CAPT Wallace D White
1LT Thomas E Moore
TSGT Lawrence F Franche
SSGT Eric A Finstrom
CPL Emanuel Geier
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SSGT, 738 AAF BOMB SQ, 454 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
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