US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
Gunner Sgt. William H. A. Trappe KIA
Hometown: Annapolis, Maryland
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service# 33552475
Awards: Purple Heart
Pilot 2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal KIA
Target: Brunswick Germany
MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #04936
Date Lost: 19-May-44
Serial Number: #41-29474
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "M"
Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 11th Mission
Location: near Hessen,
Cause: German fighter Crew of 10KIA
On the 19th, the assigned target was the Waggum airfield just outside Brunswick and this mission was to be marked with significant Group losses in aircrew personnel and aircraft. At 0600, (28) aircrews were briefed with the 577th and 578th Squadrons selected as lead. Lieutenants Conners and Joachim were the respective Lead Bombardiers. At 0905 hours, (28) ships began take-offs with one squadron assigned to fly high right off of the 492nd and the other the same formation position off of the 44th Bomb Group.
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: A returning eye-witness account stated that this aircraft had come under attack by single enemy fighters and that (6) parachutes were seen immediately thereafter. No other details were given in this MACA concerning friendly force accounts about this aircrew. A German Report #KU1834 did shed some light on the crew's fate following the fighter attacks: that this plane was shot down by a fighter near Hessen, (21) kilometers northwest of Wernigerode and that it had exploded in mid-air. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over a (1) kilometer area; and with exception of the elevator control, the ship was over 90% destroyed with the fuselage and wings burnt down. This report went on to relate aspects about the plane's armor and bullet-proof glass in that armor plating which was found was (13) and (16) millimeters thick and the glass around the tail turret was (53) mm in thickness. It further noted that no high explosives were found in the wreckage, but (10) 50-caliber machine guns were recovered.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: There were no crew survivors on this loss.
BURIAL RECORDS: German ground reports disclosed the following information about certain crew members who were found in the vicinity of the crashed plane: Report #KU1 894, Air Base Headquarters A(o) 13/Ill at Halberstadt, reported finding of the bodies of Lts. Felsenthal, Valley, and S/Sgt Doty and some of their personal property. This report further noted that these crew men had been buried at 2200 hours on the day of this mission, 19 May, along with (6) other unidentified casualties whose remains could not be positively identified due to burned conditions. A fourth member, Sgt Cuervo, was later identified and he was buried as the ninth member in the village cemetery at Veltheim. As recorded in the earlier aircrew loss, that of Lt Lang's crew, S/Sgt Krapf the Radio Operator on the Felsenthal aircrew, was located and cited in the Lang MACR as having been buried by the Germans in a village cemetery west of Gross-Win nigstedt, (19) kilometers southwest of Wolfenbuettel on 20 May 1944, thus accounting for the (10) members of Lt. Felsenthal's crew. U.S. National Cemetery records for overseas locations reflect the following on this crew: Krapf, re-interred at MARGRATEN, (Grave G-19-18) posthumously awards given not noted; Doty, also in MARGRATEN (Grave L-3-9), with a Purple Heart award post humously; Schaefer, re-interred at the ARDENNES cemetery near Liege, (Grave C-14-30), no awards noted posthumously; and Trappe, also at ARDENNES (Grave A-34-40) with the Air Medal awarded in addition to the Purple Heart. 2/Lt Valley and 2/Lt Babb are interred in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Section F Site 53. The ultimate re-interment of Lt. Felsenthal, Lt. Valley, and Sgt Cuervo is unknown as there is no record in the MACA research. Nothing exists of record on the remaining members who were never identified, but were placed in graves by the Germans.
The #41-29474 crew
2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Olimpio C. Zanini Co Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Wilbur L. Valley Navigator KIA
2nd/Lt. Lonnie L. Babb Jr. Bombardier KIA
S/Sgt. Amos E. Doty Engineer KIA
S/Sgt. Norman C. Krapf Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. Lee A. Schaefer A Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. William H. A. Trappe Gunner KIA
Sgt. Frederick J. Cuervo Gunner KIA
Sgt. Quinten R. Hayden Gunner KIA
Gunner Sgt. William H. A. Trappe KIA
Hometown: Annapolis, Maryland
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service# 33552475
Awards: Purple Heart
Pilot 2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal KIA
Target: Brunswick Germany
MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #04936
Date Lost: 19-May-44
Serial Number: #41-29474
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "M"
Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 11th Mission
Location: near Hessen,
Cause: German fighter Crew of 10KIA
On the 19th, the assigned target was the Waggum airfield just outside Brunswick and this mission was to be marked with significant Group losses in aircrew personnel and aircraft. At 0600, (28) aircrews were briefed with the 577th and 578th Squadrons selected as lead. Lieutenants Conners and Joachim were the respective Lead Bombardiers. At 0905 hours, (28) ships began take-offs with one squadron assigned to fly high right off of the 492nd and the other the same formation position off of the 44th Bomb Group.
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: A returning eye-witness account stated that this aircraft had come under attack by single enemy fighters and that (6) parachutes were seen immediately thereafter. No other details were given in this MACA concerning friendly force accounts about this aircrew. A German Report #KU1834 did shed some light on the crew's fate following the fighter attacks: that this plane was shot down by a fighter near Hessen, (21) kilometers northwest of Wernigerode and that it had exploded in mid-air. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over a (1) kilometer area; and with exception of the elevator control, the ship was over 90% destroyed with the fuselage and wings burnt down. This report went on to relate aspects about the plane's armor and bullet-proof glass in that armor plating which was found was (13) and (16) millimeters thick and the glass around the tail turret was (53) mm in thickness. It further noted that no high explosives were found in the wreckage, but (10) 50-caliber machine guns were recovered.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: There were no crew survivors on this loss.
BURIAL RECORDS: German ground reports disclosed the following information about certain crew members who were found in the vicinity of the crashed plane: Report #KU1 894, Air Base Headquarters A(o) 13/Ill at Halberstadt, reported finding of the bodies of Lts. Felsenthal, Valley, and S/Sgt Doty and some of their personal property. This report further noted that these crew men had been buried at 2200 hours on the day of this mission, 19 May, along with (6) other unidentified casualties whose remains could not be positively identified due to burned conditions. A fourth member, Sgt Cuervo, was later identified and he was buried as the ninth member in the village cemetery at Veltheim. As recorded in the earlier aircrew loss, that of Lt Lang's crew, S/Sgt Krapf the Radio Operator on the Felsenthal aircrew, was located and cited in the Lang MACR as having been buried by the Germans in a village cemetery west of Gross-Win nigstedt, (19) kilometers southwest of Wolfenbuettel on 20 May 1944, thus accounting for the (10) members of Lt. Felsenthal's crew. U.S. National Cemetery records for overseas locations reflect the following on this crew: Krapf, re-interred at MARGRATEN, (Grave G-19-18) posthumously awards given not noted; Doty, also in MARGRATEN (Grave L-3-9), with a Purple Heart award post humously; Schaefer, re-interred at the ARDENNES cemetery near Liege, (Grave C-14-30), no awards noted posthumously; and Trappe, also at ARDENNES (Grave A-34-40) with the Air Medal awarded in addition to the Purple Heart. 2/Lt Valley and 2/Lt Babb are interred in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Section F Site 53. The ultimate re-interment of Lt. Felsenthal, Lt. Valley, and Sgt Cuervo is unknown as there is no record in the MACA research. Nothing exists of record on the remaining members who were never identified, but were placed in graves by the Germans.
The #41-29474 crew
2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Olimpio C. Zanini Co Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Wilbur L. Valley Navigator KIA
2nd/Lt. Lonnie L. Babb Jr. Bombardier KIA
S/Sgt. Amos E. Doty Engineer KIA
S/Sgt. Norman C. Krapf Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. Lee A. Schaefer A Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. William H. A. Trappe Gunner KIA
Sgt. Frederick J. Cuervo Gunner KIA
Sgt. Quinten R. Hayden Gunner KIA
US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
Gunner Sgt. William H. A. Trappe KIA
Hometown: Annapolis, Maryland
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service# 33552475
Awards: Purple Heart
Pilot 2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal KIA
Target: Brunswick Germany
MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #04936
Date Lost: 19-May-44
Serial Number: #41-29474
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "M"
Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 11th Mission
Location: near Hessen,
Cause: German fighter Crew of 10KIA
On the 19th, the assigned target was the Waggum airfield just outside Brunswick and this mission was to be marked with significant Group losses in aircrew personnel and aircraft. At 0600, (28) aircrews were briefed with the 577th and 578th Squadrons selected as lead. Lieutenants Conners and Joachim were the respective Lead Bombardiers. At 0905 hours, (28) ships began take-offs with one squadron assigned to fly high right off of the 492nd and the other the same formation position off of the 44th Bomb Group.
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: A returning eye-witness account stated that this aircraft had come under attack by single enemy fighters and that (6) parachutes were seen immediately thereafter. No other details were given in this MACA concerning friendly force accounts about this aircrew. A German Report #KU1834 did shed some light on the crew's fate following the fighter attacks: that this plane was shot down by a fighter near Hessen, (21) kilometers northwest of Wernigerode and that it had exploded in mid-air. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over a (1) kilometer area; and with exception of the elevator control, the ship was over 90% destroyed with the fuselage and wings burnt down. This report went on to relate aspects about the plane's armor and bullet-proof glass in that armor plating which was found was (13) and (16) millimeters thick and the glass around the tail turret was (53) mm in thickness. It further noted that no high explosives were found in the wreckage, but (10) 50-caliber machine guns were recovered.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: There were no crew survivors on this loss.
BURIAL RECORDS: German ground reports disclosed the following information about certain crew members who were found in the vicinity of the crashed plane: Report #KU1 894, Air Base Headquarters A(o) 13/Ill at Halberstadt, reported finding of the bodies of Lts. Felsenthal, Valley, and S/Sgt Doty and some of their personal property. This report further noted that these crew men had been buried at 2200 hours on the day of this mission, 19 May, along with (6) other unidentified casualties whose remains could not be positively identified due to burned conditions. A fourth member, Sgt Cuervo, was later identified and he was buried as the ninth member in the village cemetery at Veltheim. As recorded in the earlier aircrew loss, that of Lt Lang's crew, S/Sgt Krapf the Radio Operator on the Felsenthal aircrew, was located and cited in the Lang MACR as having been buried by the Germans in a village cemetery west of Gross-Win nigstedt, (19) kilometers southwest of Wolfenbuettel on 20 May 1944, thus accounting for the (10) members of Lt. Felsenthal's crew. U.S. National Cemetery records for overseas locations reflect the following on this crew: Krapf, re-interred at MARGRATEN, (Grave G-19-18) posthumously awards given not noted; Doty, also in MARGRATEN (Grave L-3-9), with a Purple Heart award post humously; Schaefer, re-interred at the ARDENNES cemetery near Liege, (Grave C-14-30), no awards noted posthumously; and Trappe, also at ARDENNES (Grave A-34-40) with the Air Medal awarded in addition to the Purple Heart. 2/Lt Valley and 2/Lt Babb are interred in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Section F Site 53. The ultimate re-interment of Lt. Felsenthal, Lt. Valley, and Sgt Cuervo is unknown as there is no record in the MACA research. Nothing exists of record on the remaining members who were never identified, but were placed in graves by the Germans.
The #41-29474 crew
2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Olimpio C. Zanini Co Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Wilbur L. Valley Navigator KIA
2nd/Lt. Lonnie L. Babb Jr. Bombardier KIA
S/Sgt. Amos E. Doty Engineer KIA
S/Sgt. Norman C. Krapf Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. Lee A. Schaefer A Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. William H. A. Trappe Gunner KIA
Sgt. Frederick J. Cuervo Gunner KIA
Sgt. Quinten R. Hayden Gunner KIA
Gunner Sgt. William H. A. Trappe KIA
Hometown: Annapolis, Maryland
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service# 33552475
Awards: Purple Heart
Pilot 2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal KIA
Target: Brunswick Germany
MISSING AIRCREW REPORT: #04936
Date Lost: 19-May-44
Serial Number: #41-29474
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "M"
Aircraft Name: (NO NICKNAME) 11th Mission
Location: near Hessen,
Cause: German fighter Crew of 10KIA
On the 19th, the assigned target was the Waggum airfield just outside Brunswick and this mission was to be marked with significant Group losses in aircrew personnel and aircraft. At 0600, (28) aircrews were briefed with the 577th and 578th Squadrons selected as lead. Lieutenants Conners and Joachim were the respective Lead Bombardiers. At 0905 hours, (28) ships began take-offs with one squadron assigned to fly high right off of the 492nd and the other the same formation position off of the 44th Bomb Group.
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: A returning eye-witness account stated that this aircraft had come under attack by single enemy fighters and that (6) parachutes were seen immediately thereafter. No other details were given in this MACA concerning friendly force accounts about this aircrew. A German Report #KU1834 did shed some light on the crew's fate following the fighter attacks: that this plane was shot down by a fighter near Hessen, (21) kilometers northwest of Wernigerode and that it had exploded in mid-air. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over a (1) kilometer area; and with exception of the elevator control, the ship was over 90% destroyed with the fuselage and wings burnt down. This report went on to relate aspects about the plane's armor and bullet-proof glass in that armor plating which was found was (13) and (16) millimeters thick and the glass around the tail turret was (53) mm in thickness. It further noted that no high explosives were found in the wreckage, but (10) 50-caliber machine guns were recovered.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: There were no crew survivors on this loss.
BURIAL RECORDS: German ground reports disclosed the following information about certain crew members who were found in the vicinity of the crashed plane: Report #KU1 894, Air Base Headquarters A(o) 13/Ill at Halberstadt, reported finding of the bodies of Lts. Felsenthal, Valley, and S/Sgt Doty and some of their personal property. This report further noted that these crew men had been buried at 2200 hours on the day of this mission, 19 May, along with (6) other unidentified casualties whose remains could not be positively identified due to burned conditions. A fourth member, Sgt Cuervo, was later identified and he was buried as the ninth member in the village cemetery at Veltheim. As recorded in the earlier aircrew loss, that of Lt Lang's crew, S/Sgt Krapf the Radio Operator on the Felsenthal aircrew, was located and cited in the Lang MACR as having been buried by the Germans in a village cemetery west of Gross-Win nigstedt, (19) kilometers southwest of Wolfenbuettel on 20 May 1944, thus accounting for the (10) members of Lt. Felsenthal's crew. U.S. National Cemetery records for overseas locations reflect the following on this crew: Krapf, re-interred at MARGRATEN, (Grave G-19-18) posthumously awards given not noted; Doty, also in MARGRATEN (Grave L-3-9), with a Purple Heart award post humously; Schaefer, re-interred at the ARDENNES cemetery near Liege, (Grave C-14-30), no awards noted posthumously; and Trappe, also at ARDENNES (Grave A-34-40) with the Air Medal awarded in addition to the Purple Heart. 2/Lt Valley and 2/Lt Babb are interred in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Section F Site 53. The ultimate re-interment of Lt. Felsenthal, Lt. Valley, and Sgt Cuervo is unknown as there is no record in the MACA research. Nothing exists of record on the remaining members who were never identified, but were placed in graves by the Germans.
The #41-29474 crew
2nd/Lt. Charles L. Felsenthal Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Olimpio C. Zanini Co Pilot KIA
2nd/Lt. Wilbur L. Valley Navigator KIA
2nd/Lt. Lonnie L. Babb Jr. Bombardier KIA
S/Sgt. Amos E. Doty Engineer KIA
S/Sgt. Norman C. Krapf Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. Lee A. Schaefer A Radio Op. KIA
Sgt. William H. A. Trappe Gunner KIA
Sgt. Frederick J. Cuervo Gunner KIA
Sgt. Quinten R. Hayden Gunner KIA
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SGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
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