According to word received August 5 by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Gunderson, former residents of Iowa City, Ia., now living at 1616 Sioux, their son, S/Sgt Jerome A Gunderson, jr. was lost on a mission to Ludswigshafen, Germany, July 31, 1944.

On Gunderson's tenth mission as a radio-gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber, another bomber in the formation, apparently damaged by flak and out of control, hit his plane, causing it to go into a flat spin. The plane crashed at Dittweiler, Germany, about 55 miles east of Ludwigshafen.

A former student at the University of Iowa and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Gunderson enlisted in the air corps in February, 1943, and went overseas June 2, 1944 with the Eighth air force. His mother was presented last January with the air medal which the 21 year-old sergeant had won.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Ted, and a sister, Jo Ann.
The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE, Friday, August 17, 1945

Contributor: Kathy Monical (4910166

Radio Operator aboard B-24H Liberator
#41-28818.

Killed In Action over Ludwigshafen, Germany
in a mid-air collision with another bomber
about one minute from intended bombing target.

KIA were:

2nd Lt. Wallace J Bishop, Pilot
2nd Lt. William H Blake, Jr, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Francis W Rutner, Navigator
SSgt. William K Fox, Engineer-Top Turret Gunner
SSgt. Ernest R Moyer, Waist Gunner

Missing Air Crew Report 7752.

From Iowa City, Iowa.

According to word received August 5 by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Gunderson, former residents of Iowa City, Ia., now living at 1616 Sioux, their son, S/Sgt Jerome A Gunderson, jr. was lost on a mission to Ludswigshafen, Germany, July 31, 1944.

On Gunderson's tenth mission as a radio-gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber, another bomber in the formation, apparently damaged by flak and out of control, hit his plane, causing it to go into a flat spin. The plane crashed at Dittweiler, Germany, about 55 miles east of Ludwigshafen.

A former student at the University of Iowa and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Gunderson enlisted in the air corps in February, 1943, and went overseas June 2, 1944 with the Eighth air force. His mother was presented last January with the air medal which the 21 year-old sergeant had won.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Ted, and a sister, Jo Ann.
The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE, Friday, August 17, 1945

Contributor: Kathy Monical (4910166

Radio Operator aboard B-24H Liberator
#41-28818.

Killed In Action over Ludwigshafen, Germany
in a mid-air collision with another bomber
about one minute from intended bombing target.

KIA were:

2nd Lt. Wallace J Bishop, Pilot
2nd Lt. William H Blake, Jr, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Francis W Rutner, Navigator
SSgt. William K Fox, Engineer-Top Turret Gunner
SSgt. Ernest R Moyer, Waist Gunner

Missing Air Crew Report 7752.

From Iowa City, Iowa.