Sergeant Philip J Zimmerman, Michigan, Service Number 16045271, flew as radio operator and aerial gunner on B-17 Flying Fortresses with the 368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group. He was killed in action 21 May 1943, on a mission to Wilhelmshafen, Germany, in B-17 #42-29806, when heavy flak knocked out two engines. The crippled bomber crashed in the North Sea.
Sgt. Zimmerman had been awarded the Air Medal after his fifth combat mission and posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.
Sergeant Philip J Zimmerman, Michigan, Service Number 16045271, flew as radio operator and aerial gunner on B-17 Flying Fortresses with the 368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group. He was killed in action 21 May 1943, on a mission to Wilhelmshafen, Germany, in B-17 #42-29806, when heavy flak knocked out two engines. The crippled bomber crashed in the North Sea.
Sgt. Zimmerman had been awarded the Air Medal after his fifth combat mission and posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.
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