Oscar Houser
"Born in Philadelphia , Oscar was the son of Edward and Verna Houser Yeakley. He had two older brother and one younger sister. one younger sister.
Verna was only nineteen when he was born, a fact that may or may not have had something to do with what passed for his childhood. For parts of the 1930s, Oscar's older brothers went off to live with their grandparents in Ohio. It was during this presumably difficult period that he decided to use not his father's but his mother's surname.
By 1940, with war on the horizon, he was Oscar Houser, even as Verna was marrying August Clements and starting to go by his last name.
Oscar attended three years of high school in Philadelphia but abandoned schooling to work cutting soap in a local factory. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in August 1941, only months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ray Noury considered Oscar to have a "strong mind and kind heart," but he alluded to a deeper sadness when he said the man "had a tough time but fought to the end."
Flight Engineer-Aerial Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany. The plane crashed at Nepomuk, CZ.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W. Houser, Engineer
SSgt. Harold C Carter, Armorer-Gunner
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
Missing Air Crew Report 2726. Two sources has the bomber nicknamed "Butch" and also as "Miss Fortune."
The crew's partial remains were interred together on June 16, 1950.
"Born in Philadelphia , Oscar was the son of Edward and Verna Houser Yeakley. He had two older brother and one younger sister. one younger sister.
Verna was only nineteen when he was born, a fact that may or may not have had something to do with what passed for his childhood. For parts of the 1930s, Oscar's older brothers went off to live with their grandparents in Ohio. It was during this presumably difficult period that he decided to use not his father's but his mother's surname.
By 1940, with war on the horizon, he was Oscar Houser, even as Verna was marrying August Clements and starting to go by his last name.
Oscar attended three years of high school in Philadelphia but abandoned schooling to work cutting soap in a local factory. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in August 1941, only months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ray Noury considered Oscar to have a "strong mind and kind heart," but he alluded to a deeper sadness when he said the man "had a tough time but fought to the end."
Flight Engineer-Aerial Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany. The plane crashed at Nepomuk, CZ.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W. Houser, Engineer
SSgt. Harold C Carter, Armorer-Gunner
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
Missing Air Crew Report 2726. Two sources has the bomber nicknamed "Butch" and also as "Miss Fortune."
The crew's partial remains were interred together on June 16, 1950.
Oscar Houser
"Born in Philadelphia , Oscar was the son of Edward and Verna Houser Yeakley. He had two older brother and one younger sister. one younger sister.
Verna was only nineteen when he was born, a fact that may or may not have had something to do with what passed for his childhood. For parts of the 1930s, Oscar's older brothers went off to live with their grandparents in Ohio. It was during this presumably difficult period that he decided to use not his father's but his mother's surname.
By 1940, with war on the horizon, he was Oscar Houser, even as Verna was marrying August Clements and starting to go by his last name.
Oscar attended three years of high school in Philadelphia but abandoned schooling to work cutting soap in a local factory. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in August 1941, only months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ray Noury considered Oscar to have a "strong mind and kind heart," but he alluded to a deeper sadness when he said the man "had a tough time but fought to the end."
Flight Engineer-Aerial Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany. The plane crashed at Nepomuk, CZ.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W. Houser, Engineer
SSgt. Harold C Carter, Armorer-Gunner
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
Missing Air Crew Report 2726. Two sources has the bomber nicknamed "Butch" and also as "Miss Fortune."
The crew's partial remains were interred together on June 16, 1950.
"Born in Philadelphia , Oscar was the son of Edward and Verna Houser Yeakley. He had two older brother and one younger sister. one younger sister.
Verna was only nineteen when he was born, a fact that may or may not have had something to do with what passed for his childhood. For parts of the 1930s, Oscar's older brothers went off to live with their grandparents in Ohio. It was during this presumably difficult period that he decided to use not his father's but his mother's surname.
By 1940, with war on the horizon, he was Oscar Houser, even as Verna was marrying August Clements and starting to go by his last name.
Oscar attended three years of high school in Philadelphia but abandoned schooling to work cutting soap in a local factory. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in August 1941, only months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ray Noury considered Oscar to have a "strong mind and kind heart," but he alluded to a deeper sadness when he said the man "had a tough time but fought to the end."
Flight Engineer-Aerial Gunner aboard B-24J Liberator #42-73138.
Lost over Czechoslovakia on mission from Italy to bomb Regensburg, Germany. The plane crashed at Nepomuk, CZ.
Killed In Action were:
1st Lt. George M Goddard, Jr, Pilot
1st Lt. Haig Kandarian, Co-Pilot
1st Lt. Joseph F Altemus, Navigator
1st Lt. Charles F Spickard, Jr, Bombardier
TSgt. Oscar W. Houser, Engineer
SSgt. Harold C Carter, Armorer-Gunner
SSgt. John A Goldbach, Nose Gunner
SSgt. Roy E Hughes, Radio Operator
SSgt. Wayneworth E Nelson, Tail Gunner
SSgt. Rexford H Rhodes, Asst. Engineer
Missing Air Crew Report 2726. Two sources has the bomber nicknamed "Butch" and also as "Miss Fortune."
The crew's partial remains were interred together on June 16, 1950.
Inscription
TSGT, 343 AAF BOMB SQ, 98 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Pennsylvania; ASN 20315036
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