Francis was one of 5 brothers who served in WWII.
He was very involved in sports as a member of the Queens Baseball and Football alliances, as well as a Golden Gloves boxer known as Frank "K.O." Seyfried.
Francis was missed by his surviving siblings . His many nieces and nephews who never knew carry on his memory.
During WWII He was a tail gunner in the US Army Air Force are part of the 100 Bomber Group/ 350 BS with the rank of S/SGT.
He died as a result of the "piggy back flight" when one plane was shot down and two others tried to fill the missing position, one from above, the other from below. They did not see each other in time and the two planes "pancaked". Francis was in the bottom plane and bailed out. His crew mates saw him safely bail out, but he landed in the water in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. Several of the members of the planes survived when they landed. They became POWs. During the landing, the top plane slid off the bottom plane.
He is MIA 31-12-1944 as tail gunner of B-17G / #43-38457 / 'Nine Lives'/ MACR 11359. Target: the Rhenania Ossag oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany.
Pancaked with #42-31987. The aircraft crash landed still attached to each other near Horumersiel, Germany. S/Sgt Seyfried was in the bottom plane and bailed out. He landed in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. MIA.
The family is trying to have him identified as one of two unidentified remains. DNA has been submitted. Sadly, all his siblings have passed on but the rest of his family continues to hope for his return.
He was very involved in sports as a member of the Queens Baseball and Football alliances, as well as a Golden Gloves boxer known as Frank "K.O." Seyfried.
Francis was missed by his surviving siblings . His many nieces and nephews who never knew carry on his memory.
During WWII He was a tail gunner in the US Army Air Force are part of the 100 Bomber Group/ 350 BS with the rank of S/SGT.
He died as a result of the "piggy back flight" when one plane was shot down and two others tried to fill the missing position, one from above, the other from below. They did not see each other in time and the two planes "pancaked". Francis was in the bottom plane and bailed out. His crew mates saw him safely bail out, but he landed in the water in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. Several of the members of the planes survived when they landed. They became POWs. During the landing, the top plane slid off the bottom plane.
He is MIA 31-12-1944 as tail gunner of B-17G / #43-38457 / 'Nine Lives'/ MACR 11359. Target: the Rhenania Ossag oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany.
Pancaked with #42-31987. The aircraft crash landed still attached to each other near Horumersiel, Germany. S/Sgt Seyfried was in the bottom plane and bailed out. He landed in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. MIA.
The family is trying to have him identified as one of two unidentified remains. DNA has been submitted. Sadly, all his siblings have passed on but the rest of his family continues to hope for his return.
Francis was one of 5 brothers who served in WWII.
He was very involved in sports as a member of the Queens Baseball and Football alliances, as well as a Golden Gloves boxer known as Frank "K.O." Seyfried.
Francis was missed by his surviving siblings . His many nieces and nephews who never knew carry on his memory.
During WWII He was a tail gunner in the US Army Air Force are part of the 100 Bomber Group/ 350 BS with the rank of S/SGT.
He died as a result of the "piggy back flight" when one plane was shot down and two others tried to fill the missing position, one from above, the other from below. They did not see each other in time and the two planes "pancaked". Francis was in the bottom plane and bailed out. His crew mates saw him safely bail out, but he landed in the water in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. Several of the members of the planes survived when they landed. They became POWs. During the landing, the top plane slid off the bottom plane.
He is MIA 31-12-1944 as tail gunner of B-17G / #43-38457 / 'Nine Lives'/ MACR 11359. Target: the Rhenania Ossag oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany.
Pancaked with #42-31987. The aircraft crash landed still attached to each other near Horumersiel, Germany. S/Sgt Seyfried was in the bottom plane and bailed out. He landed in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. MIA.
The family is trying to have him identified as one of two unidentified remains. DNA has been submitted. Sadly, all his siblings have passed on but the rest of his family continues to hope for his return.
He was very involved in sports as a member of the Queens Baseball and Football alliances, as well as a Golden Gloves boxer known as Frank "K.O." Seyfried.
Francis was missed by his surviving siblings . His many nieces and nephews who never knew carry on his memory.
During WWII He was a tail gunner in the US Army Air Force are part of the 100 Bomber Group/ 350 BS with the rank of S/SGT.
He died as a result of the "piggy back flight" when one plane was shot down and two others tried to fill the missing position, one from above, the other from below. They did not see each other in time and the two planes "pancaked". Francis was in the bottom plane and bailed out. His crew mates saw him safely bail out, but he landed in the water in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. Several of the members of the planes survived when they landed. They became POWs. During the landing, the top plane slid off the bottom plane.
He is MIA 31-12-1944 as tail gunner of B-17G / #43-38457 / 'Nine Lives'/ MACR 11359. Target: the Rhenania Ossag oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany.
Pancaked with #42-31987. The aircraft crash landed still attached to each other near Horumersiel, Germany. S/Sgt Seyfried was in the bottom plane and bailed out. He landed in the North Sea near the Frisian Islands. MIA.
The family is trying to have him identified as one of two unidentified remains. DNA has been submitted. Sadly, all his siblings have passed on but the rest of his family continues to hope for his return.
Inscription
There is a marker in the Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale -Section MA Site 23 that reads: In memory of Francis Joseph Seyfried New York S SGT 100 Bomb Group AAF, WOrld War II, November 22, 1921 - January 1, 1945 AM & 2 OLC-PH
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Entered the service from New York.
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