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SSGT Donald Gerald Kopf

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SSGT Donald Gerald Kopf

Birth
Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
Death
27 May 1944 (aged 21)
Germany
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Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Staff Sgt. Donald G. Kopf, 22, who was listed as being missing in action over Germany since May 27, is now listed as having been killed in action on that date, according to a message -from the war department received Thursday by his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf, 424 Pond street. In June of last year Mr. and Mrs. Kopf received the message saying their son was missing in action after a raid over Germany on May 27. He was a waist gunner On a B-17 Flying Fortress and had completed more than 20 missions at that time.

He enlisted in the army on Dec. 30, 1942, and had been a machinist at the Huttig Mfg. Co., prior to that time. He was presented a third oak leaf cluster to the air medal just shortly before he failed to return from his last mission, the citation reading "for meritorious achievement on bomber attacks on enemy Europe."

Sgt. Kopf was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf and had made his home on a farm with his parents, near here. Surviving are his parents: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf; two brothers, Fred & Merle; six sisters, Augusta Kintzle, Davenport, Mrs. Rebecca Howell, Rock Island, Mrs. Ada Baars, Muscatine, Mrs. Florence Bierman, route 6, Mrs. MarieBeckman, Muscatine, and Mrs.Irene Hanson, Muscatine.
Staff Sgt. Donald G. Kopf, 22, who was listed as being missing in action over Germany since May 27, is now listed as having been killed in action on that date, according to a message -from the war department received Thursday by his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf, 424 Pond street. In June of last year Mr. and Mrs. Kopf received the message saying their son was missing in action after a raid over Germany on May 27. He was a waist gunner On a B-17 Flying Fortress and had completed more than 20 missions at that time.

He enlisted in the army on Dec. 30, 1942, and had been a machinist at the Huttig Mfg. Co., prior to that time. He was presented a third oak leaf cluster to the air medal just shortly before he failed to return from his last mission, the citation reading "for meritorious achievement on bomber attacks on enemy Europe."

Sgt. Kopf was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf and had made his home on a farm with his parents, near here. Surviving are his parents: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopf; two brothers, Fred & Merle; six sisters, Augusta Kintzle, Davenport, Mrs. Rebecca Howell, Rock Island, Mrs. Ada Baars, Muscatine, Mrs. Florence Bierman, route 6, Mrs. MarieBeckman, Muscatine, and Mrs.Irene Hanson, Muscatine.

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SSGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II

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