Central Fire Control gunner aboard B-29-25-BA Superfortress #42-63546, nicknamed "Indiana."
Moments after releasing their bombs over the intended target area of Kobe, on the night of March 17, 1945, the plane banked to the left to return to the base at the Marianas Islands when it took a direct hit from an anti aircraft artillery burst and went down near the shoreline of Akashi Villiage, Japan.
All eleven airmen aboard were killed:
1st Lt. George S Christie Jr, A/C Pilot
2nd Lt. Horace G Roop, Co-Pilot
Capt. Arthur J Roth, Navigator
1st Lt. Boutwell H Foster Jr, Flight Engineer
2nd Lt. Billy J Sullivan, Bombardier
Sgt. Roger R Bischman, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Otto Fletcher Jr, Radar Operator
Sgt. James A Given Jr, Tail Gunner
Sgt. Carlton C Henley, Left Gunner
Sgt. Kenneth M Snyder, Right Gunner
Sgt. John L Wright, Central Fire Control Gunner
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Service ID: 38441538.
Central Fire Control gunner aboard B-29-25-BA Superfortress #42-63546, nicknamed "Indiana."
Moments after releasing their bombs over the intended target area of Kobe, on the night of March 17, 1945, the plane banked to the left to return to the base at the Marianas Islands when it took a direct hit from an anti aircraft artillery burst and went down near the shoreline of Akashi Villiage, Japan.
All eleven airmen aboard were killed:
1st Lt. George S Christie Jr, A/C Pilot
2nd Lt. Horace G Roop, Co-Pilot
Capt. Arthur J Roth, Navigator
1st Lt. Boutwell H Foster Jr, Flight Engineer
2nd Lt. Billy J Sullivan, Bombardier
Sgt. Roger R Bischman, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Otto Fletcher Jr, Radar Operator
Sgt. James A Given Jr, Tail Gunner
Sgt. Carlton C Henley, Left Gunner
Sgt. Kenneth M Snyder, Right Gunner
Sgt. John L Wright, Central Fire Control Gunner
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Service ID: 38441538.
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SGT, 99 AAF BOMB SQ, 9 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
Gravesite Details
Interred September 2, 1949.
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