Flight Engineer with the 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group.
On a mission out of USAAF Station 131 Nuthampstead, England to strike targets over Berlin aboard B17G Flying Fortress #42-107231, his aircraft was struck in the № 2 and
№ 3 engines by anti-aircraft artillery flak and exploded and crashed in the vicinity of the Jungfernheide Railway Station, Charlottenburg-Nord district of Berlin, Germany. Eight crewmembers were Killed In Action, and three escaped the downed bomber and survived and became POWs. Missing Air Crew Report № 5252.
Air Crew KIA:
CAPT Unite L Brodin, O-740045, MN, Pilot
MAJ Judson F Gray, O-370538, NC, Co-Pilot
CAPT Gordon F Davidson, O-728353, MO, Navigator
1LT Louis C Haberman, O-734900, WI, Engineer
1LT Paul W Voehringer, O-732191, CA, Bombardier
SSGT Peter D Carrado, 31168675, CT, Ball Turret Gunner
SSGT Sidor P Stizzo, 39406188, CA, Waist Gunner
TSGT Marlin Woodward, 6296264, TX, Waist Gunner
POWs:
Leroy Elton, Top Turret Gunner
Bernie Rochford, Radio Operator
Jerome Hans, Tail Gunner
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Enlisted at La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 21, 1942.
Service ID: O-734900.
Flight Engineer with the 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group.
On a mission out of USAAF Station 131 Nuthampstead, England to strike targets over Berlin aboard B17G Flying Fortress #42-107231, his aircraft was struck in the № 2 and
№ 3 engines by anti-aircraft artillery flak and exploded and crashed in the vicinity of the Jungfernheide Railway Station, Charlottenburg-Nord district of Berlin, Germany. Eight crewmembers were Killed In Action, and three escaped the downed bomber and survived and became POWs. Missing Air Crew Report № 5252.
Air Crew KIA:
CAPT Unite L Brodin, O-740045, MN, Pilot
MAJ Judson F Gray, O-370538, NC, Co-Pilot
CAPT Gordon F Davidson, O-728353, MO, Navigator
1LT Louis C Haberman, O-734900, WI, Engineer
1LT Paul W Voehringer, O-732191, CA, Bombardier
SSGT Peter D Carrado, 31168675, CT, Ball Turret Gunner
SSGT Sidor P Stizzo, 39406188, CA, Waist Gunner
TSGT Marlin Woodward, 6296264, TX, Waist Gunner
POWs:
Leroy Elton, Top Turret Gunner
Bernie Rochford, Radio Operator
Jerome Hans, Tail Gunner
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Enlisted at La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 21, 1942.
Service ID: O-734900.
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