Second Lieutenant (2Lt), B-17F ("Flying Fortress) Co-Pilot, 332nd Bomber Squadron (possibly assigned to the 333BS, with the last aircraft flown assigned to the 332BS), 94th Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II; Service #750761 [Son of Fred & Anna R. Amberg]
Purple Heart. American Campaign Medal & World War II Victory Medal
Killed in Action (KIA) on a combat bombing mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17F #42-3530. Crew: Pilot Elza Fairchild, Co-pilot: Ken Amberg, Navigator: Chas Watkins, Bombardier: John McCarthy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Pippin, Radio Operator: Alonzo Christian, Ball turret gunner: Theo Violette, Waist gunner: Sam Diamond, Waist gunner: Ray Wright (Killed in Action); Ed Hunt (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Watenstedt (enroute to the target), 15 miles south of Helmstedt A/Fd, Germany Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1885.
Purple Heart. American Campaign Medal & World War II Victory Medal
Killed in Action (KIA) on a combat bombing mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17F #42-3530. Crew: Pilot Elza Fairchild, Co-pilot: Ken Amberg, Navigator: Chas Watkins, Bombardier: John McCarthy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Pippin, Radio Operator: Alonzo Christian, Ball turret gunner: Theo Violette, Waist gunner: Sam Diamond, Waist gunner: Ray Wright (Killed in Action); Ed Hunt (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Watenstedt (enroute to the target), 15 miles south of Helmstedt A/Fd, Germany Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1885.
Second Lieutenant (2Lt), B-17F ("Flying Fortress) Co-Pilot, 332nd Bomber Squadron (possibly assigned to the 333BS, with the last aircraft flown assigned to the 332BS), 94th Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II; Service #750761 [Son of Fred & Anna R. Amberg]
Purple Heart. American Campaign Medal & World War II Victory Medal
Killed in Action (KIA) on a combat bombing mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17F #42-3530. Crew: Pilot Elza Fairchild, Co-pilot: Ken Amberg, Navigator: Chas Watkins, Bombardier: John McCarthy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Pippin, Radio Operator: Alonzo Christian, Ball turret gunner: Theo Violette, Waist gunner: Sam Diamond, Waist gunner: Ray Wright (Killed in Action); Ed Hunt (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Watenstedt (enroute to the target), 15 miles south of Helmstedt A/Fd, Germany Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1885.
Purple Heart. American Campaign Medal & World War II Victory Medal
Killed in Action (KIA) on a combat bombing mission to Brunswick on 11 Jan 1944 in B-17F #42-3530. Crew: Pilot Elza Fairchild, Co-pilot: Ken Amberg, Navigator: Chas Watkins, Bombardier: John McCarthy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Pippin, Radio Operator: Alonzo Christian, Ball turret gunner: Theo Violette, Waist gunner: Sam Diamond, Waist gunner: Ray Wright (Killed in Action); Ed Hunt (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Watenstedt (enroute to the target), 15 miles south of Helmstedt A/Fd, Germany Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 1885.
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Entered the service from Michigan.
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