U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-437064
Enlistment Date: 07/11/1941 with Service No. 31018995
Entered the Service from: Massachusetts
Headquarters Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
Sylvan Feld is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Essex County, Massachusetts.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Helen C. Feld (Mother)
32 Alhambra
Coral Gables, Florida
Information below gleaned from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/238859:
Pilot of P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt #42-25966. Missing Air Crew Report 8584.
Information below gleaned from book "Spitfires & Yellow Tail Mustangs: The U.S. 52nd Fighter Group in WWII:
On 2 June, 1st Lt. Thompson D. Litchfield, 5th FS, damaged a Ju 88 over the Bay of Bizerte. Lt. Sid Feld shot down an Fw 190 on 3 June, twenty miles northeast of Cape Bon, and three days later Feld downed an Me 109 west of Pantelleria and damaged another in the same area, for his final victories. With nine kills, Sylvan Feld was the USAAF's highest scoring Spitfire ace. Soon afterward, he was transferred out of the group, and in September 1943 Feld was reassigned to the 410th FS, 373rd FG. The 373rd was later deployed to the Ninth Air Force in England, and during his short combat tour with this group, Maj. Feld destroyed 3.5 German aircraft on the ground. On 13 August 1944, Feld's P-47 was brought down by flak and seven days later, as a POW, he was mortally wounded during a USAAF bombing attack and died the next day in Petit Quevilly, France. Maj. Feld was buried as "an unknown German soldier," and it was not until 1959 that the German War Graves Commission unearthed the remains and found American military clothing and Maj. Feld's dogtags. His remains were re-interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.
***I would like to thank Jaap Vermeer Find A Grave ID 47735775 for adding his photo of Sylvan and his Missing Air Crew Report.
***I would like to thank Doc Wilson Find A Grave ID 47464039 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Dominique Potier Find A Grave ID 47278008 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Donna Esposito Find A Grave ID 49840286 for updating birth/death information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank ernie Find A Grave ID 48454782 for linking his father to this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 07/11/1941 with Service No. 31018995
Entered the Service from: Massachusetts
Headquarters Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
Sylvan Feld is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Essex County, Massachusetts.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Helen C. Feld (Mother)
32 Alhambra
Coral Gables, Florida
Information below gleaned from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/238859:
Pilot of P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt #42-25966. Missing Air Crew Report 8584.
Information below gleaned from book "Spitfires & Yellow Tail Mustangs: The U.S. 52nd Fighter Group in WWII:
On 2 June, 1st Lt. Thompson D. Litchfield, 5th FS, damaged a Ju 88 over the Bay of Bizerte. Lt. Sid Feld shot down an Fw 190 on 3 June, twenty miles northeast of Cape Bon, and three days later Feld downed an Me 109 west of Pantelleria and damaged another in the same area, for his final victories. With nine kills, Sylvan Feld was the USAAF's highest scoring Spitfire ace. Soon afterward, he was transferred out of the group, and in September 1943 Feld was reassigned to the 410th FS, 373rd FG. The 373rd was later deployed to the Ninth Air Force in England, and during his short combat tour with this group, Maj. Feld destroyed 3.5 German aircraft on the ground. On 13 August 1944, Feld's P-47 was brought down by flak and seven days later, as a POW, he was mortally wounded during a USAAF bombing attack and died the next day in Petit Quevilly, France. Maj. Feld was buried as "an unknown German soldier," and it was not until 1959 that the German War Graves Commission unearthed the remains and found American military clothing and Maj. Feld's dogtags. His remains were re-interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.
***I would like to thank Jaap Vermeer Find A Grave ID 47735775 for adding his photo of Sylvan and his Missing Air Crew Report.
***I would like to thank Doc Wilson Find A Grave ID 47464039 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Dominique Potier Find A Grave ID 47278008 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Donna Esposito Find A Grave ID 49840286 for updating birth/death information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank ernie Find A Grave ID 48454782 for linking his father to this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-437064
Enlistment Date: 07/11/1941 with Service No. 31018995
Entered the Service from: Massachusetts
Headquarters Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
Sylvan Feld is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Essex County, Massachusetts.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Helen C. Feld (Mother)
32 Alhambra
Coral Gables, Florida
Information below gleaned from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/238859:
Pilot of P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt #42-25966. Missing Air Crew Report 8584.
Information below gleaned from book "Spitfires & Yellow Tail Mustangs: The U.S. 52nd Fighter Group in WWII:
On 2 June, 1st Lt. Thompson D. Litchfield, 5th FS, damaged a Ju 88 over the Bay of Bizerte. Lt. Sid Feld shot down an Fw 190 on 3 June, twenty miles northeast of Cape Bon, and three days later Feld downed an Me 109 west of Pantelleria and damaged another in the same area, for his final victories. With nine kills, Sylvan Feld was the USAAF's highest scoring Spitfire ace. Soon afterward, he was transferred out of the group, and in September 1943 Feld was reassigned to the 410th FS, 373rd FG. The 373rd was later deployed to the Ninth Air Force in England, and during his short combat tour with this group, Maj. Feld destroyed 3.5 German aircraft on the ground. On 13 August 1944, Feld's P-47 was brought down by flak and seven days later, as a POW, he was mortally wounded during a USAAF bombing attack and died the next day in Petit Quevilly, France. Maj. Feld was buried as "an unknown German soldier," and it was not until 1959 that the German War Graves Commission unearthed the remains and found American military clothing and Maj. Feld's dogtags. His remains were re-interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.
***I would like to thank Jaap Vermeer Find A Grave ID 47735775 for adding his photo of Sylvan and his Missing Air Crew Report.
***I would like to thank Doc Wilson Find A Grave ID 47464039 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Dominique Potier Find A Grave ID 47278008 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Donna Esposito Find A Grave ID 49840286 for updating birth/death information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank ernie Find A Grave ID 48454782 for linking his father to this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 07/11/1941 with Service No. 31018995
Entered the Service from: Massachusetts
Headquarters Squadron, 373rd Fighter Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal
Sylvan Feld is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Essex County, Massachusetts.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Helen C. Feld (Mother)
32 Alhambra
Coral Gables, Florida
Information below gleaned from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/238859:
Pilot of P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt #42-25966. Missing Air Crew Report 8584.
Information below gleaned from book "Spitfires & Yellow Tail Mustangs: The U.S. 52nd Fighter Group in WWII:
On 2 June, 1st Lt. Thompson D. Litchfield, 5th FS, damaged a Ju 88 over the Bay of Bizerte. Lt. Sid Feld shot down an Fw 190 on 3 June, twenty miles northeast of Cape Bon, and three days later Feld downed an Me 109 west of Pantelleria and damaged another in the same area, for his final victories. With nine kills, Sylvan Feld was the USAAF's highest scoring Spitfire ace. Soon afterward, he was transferred out of the group, and in September 1943 Feld was reassigned to the 410th FS, 373rd FG. The 373rd was later deployed to the Ninth Air Force in England, and during his short combat tour with this group, Maj. Feld destroyed 3.5 German aircraft on the ground. On 13 August 1944, Feld's P-47 was brought down by flak and seven days later, as a POW, he was mortally wounded during a USAAF bombing attack and died the next day in Petit Quevilly, France. Maj. Feld was buried as "an unknown German soldier," and it was not until 1959 that the German War Graves Commission unearthed the remains and found American military clothing and Maj. Feld's dogtags. His remains were re-interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium.
***I would like to thank Jaap Vermeer Find A Grave ID 47735775 for adding his photo of Sylvan and his Missing Air Crew Report.
***I would like to thank Doc Wilson Find A Grave ID 47464039 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Dominique Potier Find A Grave ID 47278008 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Donna Esposito Find A Grave ID 49840286 for updating birth/death information on this memorial***
***I would like to thank ernie Find A Grave ID 48454782 for linking his father to this memorial***
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SYLVAN FELD
MAJ HQ SQ 373 FTR GP
MASS AUG 21 1944
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