Parents, Joseph Stanley and Josephine Kuffel
Assigned July 15, 1942 as Ball Turret Gunner on B-17F #42-2967 "Shak Hak", 303BG/360BS at Alamogordo Field, New Mexico. October 16, 1942 Arrived at Molesworth, UK aboard "Shak Hak".
Shot down February 16, 1943 in B-17F #42-2967 "Shak Hak", 303BG/360BS while serving as Ball Turret Gunner. The aircraft was attacked by fighters and crashed into the English Channel on return from a mission to St. Nazaire, France.
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Parents, Joseph Stanley and Josephine Kuffel
Assigned July 15, 1942 as Ball Turret Gunner on B-17F #42-2967 "Shak Hak", 303BG/360BS at Alamogordo Field, New Mexico. October 16, 1942 Arrived at Molesworth, UK aboard "Shak Hak".
Shot down February 16, 1943 in B-17F #42-2967 "Shak Hak", 303BG/360BS while serving as Ball Turret Gunner. The aircraft was attacked by fighters and crashed into the English Channel on return from a mission to St. Nazaire, France.
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MATHIAS A KUFFEL
S SGT - 360 BOMB SQ 303 BOMB GP (H) - CALIFORNIA
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Records on Ancestry
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1940 United States Federal Census
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1930 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
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U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
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