Crewmember aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #44-6182 with the 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group. Mission: Tortorella, Italy to Blechhammer, German-occupied Poland.
Shot down on mission to strike the oil refineries at Blechhammer, and crashed at Racibórz, Poland [German: Ratibor]. All ten airmen were killed. Missing Air Crew Report № 10030.
The Crewmembers:
● 2LT Harvey N Webb Jr., O-770866, AZ, Pilot
● 2LT Jesse H Timberlake, O-747921, TX, Co- Pilot
● 2LT Donald A Oonk, O2061035, MO
● 2LT Harry C Pepon, O2065416, OH
● SGT Leo W Brousseau, 32942506, NY
● SGT Clarence M Burkett, 19049845, TX
● SGT William M Corns Jr., 34809602, AL
● SGT Forrest E Freeman, 35894795, IN
● SGT Robert F Manzer, 37126491, IA
● SGT Donald C Monroe, 11057369, MA
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Enlisted at Columbus, OH, December 9, 1942.
Shot down on mission to strike the oil refineries at Blechhammer, and crashed at Racibórz, Poland [German: Ratibor]. All ten airmen were killed. Missing Air Crew Report № 10030.
The Crewmembers:
● 2LT Harvey N Webb Jr., O-770866, AZ, Pilot
● 2LT Jesse H Timberlake, O-747921, TX, Co- Pilot
● 2LT Donald A Oonk, O2061035, MO
● 2LT Harry C Pepon, O2065416, OH
● SGT Leo W Brousseau, 32942506, NY
● SGT Clarence M Burkett, 19049845, TX
● SGT William M Corns Jr., 34809602, AL
● SGT Forrest E Freeman, 35894795, IN
● SGT Robert F Manzer, 37126491, IA
● SGT Donald C Monroe, 11057369, MA
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Enlisted at Columbus, OH, December 9, 1942.
Crewmember aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #44-6182 with the 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group. Mission: Tortorella, Italy to Blechhammer, German-occupied Poland.
Shot down on mission to strike the oil refineries at Blechhammer, and crashed at Racibórz, Poland [German: Ratibor]. All ten airmen were killed. Missing Air Crew Report № 10030.
The Crewmembers:
● 2LT Harvey N Webb Jr., O-770866, AZ, Pilot
● 2LT Jesse H Timberlake, O-747921, TX, Co- Pilot
● 2LT Donald A Oonk, O2061035, MO
● 2LT Harry C Pepon, O2065416, OH
● SGT Leo W Brousseau, 32942506, NY
● SGT Clarence M Burkett, 19049845, TX
● SGT William M Corns Jr., 34809602, AL
● SGT Forrest E Freeman, 35894795, IN
● SGT Robert F Manzer, 37126491, IA
● SGT Donald C Monroe, 11057369, MA
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Enlisted at Columbus, OH, December 9, 1942.
Shot down on mission to strike the oil refineries at Blechhammer, and crashed at Racibórz, Poland [German: Ratibor]. All ten airmen were killed. Missing Air Crew Report № 10030.
The Crewmembers:
● 2LT Harvey N Webb Jr., O-770866, AZ, Pilot
● 2LT Jesse H Timberlake, O-747921, TX, Co- Pilot
● 2LT Donald A Oonk, O2061035, MO
● 2LT Harry C Pepon, O2065416, OH
● SGT Leo W Brousseau, 32942506, NY
● SGT Clarence M Burkett, 19049845, TX
● SGT William M Corns Jr., 34809602, AL
● SGT Forrest E Freeman, 35894795, IN
● SGT Robert F Manzer, 37126491, IA
● SGT Donald C Monroe, 11057369, MA
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Enlisted at Columbus, OH, December 9, 1942.
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2LT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
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Burial January 16, 1950.
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