Pilot 2nd/Lt. Kurt F. Schellhas KIA
Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Unit: 790 Bomb Sq, 467 Bomb Gp
Service ID: O-713676.
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
MACR
Target: mission to Prum
Date Lost: 29-Dec-44
Serial Number:#42-95115
Aircraft Model B-24M Liberator
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location:
Cause: crashed on take off in dense fog on mission to Prum.
The four motored bomber crashed on takeoff from RAF Rackheath/USAAF Station 145, Norfolk, England, for a mission to Plum, Germany, but the airplane faltered in dense fog due to prop wash from other planes taking off, and mushed into treetops and crashed, killing all ten airmen aboard.
Three other crashes caused the mission to Prum, Germany to be scrubbed.
Killed were:
2nd Lt. Kurt F Schellhas, O-713676, MN, Pilot
Flt. Off. Clifford A Pheneger, T-125782, CA, Co-Pilot
Flt. Off. Richard S Hagist, T-129815, IL, Navigator
Sgt. Joseph F Fearon, 31308952, MA, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Albert Montick, 32597713, NJ, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Dale K Ketchel, 17100468, KS, RCM Operator
Sgt. Lewis E Byers, 37730501, KS, Gunner
Sgt. Karl J Koller, 16107813, WI, Gunner
Sgt. Edward R Materewicz, 13189418, PA, Gunner
Sgt. Robert L Williams, Togglier
One of the other bombers to crash at this location was B-24 #42-51572
Note: This memorial was updated on Feb. 20, 2022. Memorials created or updated prior to this date may have the incorrect aircraft serial numbers, as it took considerable research to sort out the four crashes that occurred on this morning in 1944
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His brother William L Schellhas was also killed in action in Europe.
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Enlisted at Minneapolis, MN, June 24, 1942; from Winona County, Minnesota; Section ID: O-713676.
Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Unit: 790 Bomb Sq, 467 Bomb Gp
Service ID: O-713676.
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
MACR
Target: mission to Prum
Date Lost: 29-Dec-44
Serial Number:#42-95115
Aircraft Model B-24M Liberator
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location:
Cause: crashed on take off in dense fog on mission to Prum.
The four motored bomber crashed on takeoff from RAF Rackheath/USAAF Station 145, Norfolk, England, for a mission to Plum, Germany, but the airplane faltered in dense fog due to prop wash from other planes taking off, and mushed into treetops and crashed, killing all ten airmen aboard.
Three other crashes caused the mission to Prum, Germany to be scrubbed.
Killed were:
2nd Lt. Kurt F Schellhas, O-713676, MN, Pilot
Flt. Off. Clifford A Pheneger, T-125782, CA, Co-Pilot
Flt. Off. Richard S Hagist, T-129815, IL, Navigator
Sgt. Joseph F Fearon, 31308952, MA, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Albert Montick, 32597713, NJ, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Dale K Ketchel, 17100468, KS, RCM Operator
Sgt. Lewis E Byers, 37730501, KS, Gunner
Sgt. Karl J Koller, 16107813, WI, Gunner
Sgt. Edward R Materewicz, 13189418, PA, Gunner
Sgt. Robert L Williams, Togglier
One of the other bombers to crash at this location was B-24 #42-51572
Note: This memorial was updated on Feb. 20, 2022. Memorials created or updated prior to this date may have the incorrect aircraft serial numbers, as it took considerable research to sort out the four crashes that occurred on this morning in 1944
~
His brother William L Schellhas was also killed in action in Europe.
~
Enlisted at Minneapolis, MN, June 24, 1942; from Winona County, Minnesota; Section ID: O-713676.
Pilot 2nd/Lt. Kurt F. Schellhas KIA
Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Unit: 790 Bomb Sq, 467 Bomb Gp
Service ID: O-713676.
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
MACR
Target: mission to Prum
Date Lost: 29-Dec-44
Serial Number:#42-95115
Aircraft Model B-24M Liberator
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location:
Cause: crashed on take off in dense fog on mission to Prum.
The four motored bomber crashed on takeoff from RAF Rackheath/USAAF Station 145, Norfolk, England, for a mission to Plum, Germany, but the airplane faltered in dense fog due to prop wash from other planes taking off, and mushed into treetops and crashed, killing all ten airmen aboard.
Three other crashes caused the mission to Prum, Germany to be scrubbed.
Killed were:
2nd Lt. Kurt F Schellhas, O-713676, MN, Pilot
Flt. Off. Clifford A Pheneger, T-125782, CA, Co-Pilot
Flt. Off. Richard S Hagist, T-129815, IL, Navigator
Sgt. Joseph F Fearon, 31308952, MA, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Albert Montick, 32597713, NJ, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Dale K Ketchel, 17100468, KS, RCM Operator
Sgt. Lewis E Byers, 37730501, KS, Gunner
Sgt. Karl J Koller, 16107813, WI, Gunner
Sgt. Edward R Materewicz, 13189418, PA, Gunner
Sgt. Robert L Williams, Togglier
One of the other bombers to crash at this location was B-24 #42-51572
Note: This memorial was updated on Feb. 20, 2022. Memorials created or updated prior to this date may have the incorrect aircraft serial numbers, as it took considerable research to sort out the four crashes that occurred on this morning in 1944
~
His brother William L Schellhas was also killed in action in Europe.
~
Enlisted at Minneapolis, MN, June 24, 1942; from Winona County, Minnesota; Section ID: O-713676.
Home: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Unit: 790 Bomb Sq, 467 Bomb Gp
Service ID: O-713676.
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
MACR
Target: mission to Prum
Date Lost: 29-Dec-44
Serial Number:#42-95115
Aircraft Model B-24M Liberator
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location:
Cause: crashed on take off in dense fog on mission to Prum.
The four motored bomber crashed on takeoff from RAF Rackheath/USAAF Station 145, Norfolk, England, for a mission to Plum, Germany, but the airplane faltered in dense fog due to prop wash from other planes taking off, and mushed into treetops and crashed, killing all ten airmen aboard.
Three other crashes caused the mission to Prum, Germany to be scrubbed.
Killed were:
2nd Lt. Kurt F Schellhas, O-713676, MN, Pilot
Flt. Off. Clifford A Pheneger, T-125782, CA, Co-Pilot
Flt. Off. Richard S Hagist, T-129815, IL, Navigator
Sgt. Joseph F Fearon, 31308952, MA, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Albert Montick, 32597713, NJ, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Dale K Ketchel, 17100468, KS, RCM Operator
Sgt. Lewis E Byers, 37730501, KS, Gunner
Sgt. Karl J Koller, 16107813, WI, Gunner
Sgt. Edward R Materewicz, 13189418, PA, Gunner
Sgt. Robert L Williams, Togglier
One of the other bombers to crash at this location was B-24 #42-51572
Note: This memorial was updated on Feb. 20, 2022. Memorials created or updated prior to this date may have the incorrect aircraft serial numbers, as it took considerable research to sort out the four crashes that occurred on this morning in 1944
~
His brother William L Schellhas was also killed in action in Europe.
~
Enlisted at Minneapolis, MN, June 24, 1942; from Winona County, Minnesota; Section ID: O-713676.
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