Gunner S/Sgt. Edward F. Griffin KIA
Hometown: Malone, New York
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service #12159893
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 1st/Lt. Robert L. Hull KIA
Target: KIEL Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#:01911
Date Lost: 4-Jan-44
Serial Number: #42-52083
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "H-Bar"
Aircraft Name: "OUT HOUSE MOUSE" 6th Mission
Location: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
Cause: Fighters 10KIA
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: No specific eye-witness accounts were given on the loss of this aircraft and crew. The accompanying German reports in the MACR record give what facts are available: These enemy recaps contained in report #KU621 (headquarters at EUSUM) note that this plane crashed at 1255 hours (15) kilometers north of Eusum; and was identified as a B-24 with a capital letter "D" underneath a number 252083 in yellow writing and below a yellow H-Bar in capital letters within a yellow line horizontally; that the ship was 100% destroyed, probably by a fighter, and (10) crewmen were found dead with (5) of these identified as ‘unknowns'. Another exact location of this crashed ship was: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: The only facts are those related in the German accounts which stated all crewmembers as being found killed-inaction.
BURIAL RECORDS: The enemy report of 8 January 1944 at 1545 hours, #A-LFHZ 50 1/8, to Headquarters Air District Xl in Hamburg, Germany noted that these (10) crewmen casualties were buried in a cemetery at Farm Erholung, Road Bredstedt in the Community of Bredstedt, Map Leaf 1, Plot 9. The (5) men positively identified were: Lt Lassey and Sgts. Hay, Buchert, Griffin and Surls. (Author's note: It is interesting to note that (4) of the ‘unknown' crewmen cited in the German burial report were subsequently identified by U.S. authorities as these men rest in specific grave plots in U.S. National Cemeteries overseas). U.S. interments in overseas National Cemeteries are recorded as follows: Hull in the Netherlands (Margraten) location, Grave M-20-10; Durrance in the U.S. ARDENNES Cemetery, Grave A-11 -14; Coleman in the ARDENNES, Grave C-16-16; Johnson, also in the ARDENNES location, Grave C-20-2l; and Griffin, Grave A-13-9 in the ARDENNES National cemetery. No other reports exist on the subsequent re-interment of the other (5) crewmen in any U.S. National Overseas Cemetery, if such re-burial was ever accomplished elsewhere in the case of these men from their initial burial site in Germany. The German burials took place on 6 January 1944 by the enemy reports. For the crew members now interred in the overseas National Cemeteries, it is noted that medal awards were as follows;: Hull (Air Medal); Durrance (Air Medal); Coleman (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster); Johnson (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Griffin (Air Medal), and all awarded the Purple Heart. Purple Heart awards for the remaining crewmen are not recorded, if such were ever made.
The "OUT HOUSE MOUSE"
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
2nd/Lt. Edward E. Durrance Co Pilot
2nd/Lt. Vincent B. Coleman Navigator
2nd/Lt. John E. Lessey Bombardier
T/Sgt. William R. Hay Engineer
T/Sgt. James F. Johnson Radio Op.
S/Sgt. William L. Buchert
S/Sgt. David Leon Surls
S/Sgt. Edward F Griffin
S/Sgt. Raul Vasquez
Hometown: Malone, New York
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service #12159893
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 1st/Lt. Robert L. Hull KIA
Target: KIEL Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#:01911
Date Lost: 4-Jan-44
Serial Number: #42-52083
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "H-Bar"
Aircraft Name: "OUT HOUSE MOUSE" 6th Mission
Location: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
Cause: Fighters 10KIA
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: No specific eye-witness accounts were given on the loss of this aircraft and crew. The accompanying German reports in the MACR record give what facts are available: These enemy recaps contained in report #KU621 (headquarters at EUSUM) note that this plane crashed at 1255 hours (15) kilometers north of Eusum; and was identified as a B-24 with a capital letter "D" underneath a number 252083 in yellow writing and below a yellow H-Bar in capital letters within a yellow line horizontally; that the ship was 100% destroyed, probably by a fighter, and (10) crewmen were found dead with (5) of these identified as ‘unknowns'. Another exact location of this crashed ship was: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: The only facts are those related in the German accounts which stated all crewmembers as being found killed-inaction.
BURIAL RECORDS: The enemy report of 8 January 1944 at 1545 hours, #A-LFHZ 50 1/8, to Headquarters Air District Xl in Hamburg, Germany noted that these (10) crewmen casualties were buried in a cemetery at Farm Erholung, Road Bredstedt in the Community of Bredstedt, Map Leaf 1, Plot 9. The (5) men positively identified were: Lt Lassey and Sgts. Hay, Buchert, Griffin and Surls. (Author's note: It is interesting to note that (4) of the ‘unknown' crewmen cited in the German burial report were subsequently identified by U.S. authorities as these men rest in specific grave plots in U.S. National Cemeteries overseas). U.S. interments in overseas National Cemeteries are recorded as follows: Hull in the Netherlands (Margraten) location, Grave M-20-10; Durrance in the U.S. ARDENNES Cemetery, Grave A-11 -14; Coleman in the ARDENNES, Grave C-16-16; Johnson, also in the ARDENNES location, Grave C-20-2l; and Griffin, Grave A-13-9 in the ARDENNES National cemetery. No other reports exist on the subsequent re-interment of the other (5) crewmen in any U.S. National Overseas Cemetery, if such re-burial was ever accomplished elsewhere in the case of these men from their initial burial site in Germany. The German burials took place on 6 January 1944 by the enemy reports. For the crew members now interred in the overseas National Cemeteries, it is noted that medal awards were as follows;: Hull (Air Medal); Durrance (Air Medal); Coleman (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster); Johnson (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Griffin (Air Medal), and all awarded the Purple Heart. Purple Heart awards for the remaining crewmen are not recorded, if such were ever made.
The "OUT HOUSE MOUSE"
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
2nd/Lt. Edward E. Durrance Co Pilot
2nd/Lt. Vincent B. Coleman Navigator
2nd/Lt. John E. Lessey Bombardier
T/Sgt. William R. Hay Engineer
T/Sgt. James F. Johnson Radio Op.
S/Sgt. William L. Buchert
S/Sgt. David Leon Surls
S/Sgt. Edward F Griffin
S/Sgt. Raul Vasquez
Gunner S/Sgt. Edward F. Griffin KIA
Hometown: Malone, New York
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service #12159893
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 1st/Lt. Robert L. Hull KIA
Target: KIEL Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#:01911
Date Lost: 4-Jan-44
Serial Number: #42-52083
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "H-Bar"
Aircraft Name: "OUT HOUSE MOUSE" 6th Mission
Location: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
Cause: Fighters 10KIA
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: No specific eye-witness accounts were given on the loss of this aircraft and crew. The accompanying German reports in the MACR record give what facts are available: These enemy recaps contained in report #KU621 (headquarters at EUSUM) note that this plane crashed at 1255 hours (15) kilometers north of Eusum; and was identified as a B-24 with a capital letter "D" underneath a number 252083 in yellow writing and below a yellow H-Bar in capital letters within a yellow line horizontally; that the ship was 100% destroyed, probably by a fighter, and (10) crewmen were found dead with (5) of these identified as ‘unknowns'. Another exact location of this crashed ship was: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: The only facts are those related in the German accounts which stated all crewmembers as being found killed-inaction.
BURIAL RECORDS: The enemy report of 8 January 1944 at 1545 hours, #A-LFHZ 50 1/8, to Headquarters Air District Xl in Hamburg, Germany noted that these (10) crewmen casualties were buried in a cemetery at Farm Erholung, Road Bredstedt in the Community of Bredstedt, Map Leaf 1, Plot 9. The (5) men positively identified were: Lt Lassey and Sgts. Hay, Buchert, Griffin and Surls. (Author's note: It is interesting to note that (4) of the ‘unknown' crewmen cited in the German burial report were subsequently identified by U.S. authorities as these men rest in specific grave plots in U.S. National Cemeteries overseas). U.S. interments in overseas National Cemeteries are recorded as follows: Hull in the Netherlands (Margraten) location, Grave M-20-10; Durrance in the U.S. ARDENNES Cemetery, Grave A-11 -14; Coleman in the ARDENNES, Grave C-16-16; Johnson, also in the ARDENNES location, Grave C-20-2l; and Griffin, Grave A-13-9 in the ARDENNES National cemetery. No other reports exist on the subsequent re-interment of the other (5) crewmen in any U.S. National Overseas Cemetery, if such re-burial was ever accomplished elsewhere in the case of these men from their initial burial site in Germany. The German burials took place on 6 January 1944 by the enemy reports. For the crew members now interred in the overseas National Cemeteries, it is noted that medal awards were as follows;: Hull (Air Medal); Durrance (Air Medal); Coleman (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster); Johnson (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Griffin (Air Medal), and all awarded the Purple Heart. Purple Heart awards for the remaining crewmen are not recorded, if such were ever made.
The "OUT HOUSE MOUSE"
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
2nd/Lt. Edward E. Durrance Co Pilot
2nd/Lt. Vincent B. Coleman Navigator
2nd/Lt. John E. Lessey Bombardier
T/Sgt. William R. Hay Engineer
T/Sgt. James F. Johnson Radio Op.
S/Sgt. William L. Buchert
S/Sgt. David Leon Surls
S/Sgt. Edward F Griffin
S/Sgt. Raul Vasquez
Hometown: Malone, New York
Squadron: 579th BS 392th Bomb Group
Service #12159893
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 1st/Lt. Robert L. Hull KIA
Target: KIEL Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#:01911
Date Lost: 4-Jan-44
Serial Number: #42-52083
Aircraft Model B-24
Aircraft Letter: "H-Bar"
Aircraft Name: "OUT HOUSE MOUSE" 6th Mission
Location: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
Cause: Fighters 10KIA
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: No specific eye-witness accounts were given on the loss of this aircraft and crew. The accompanying German reports in the MACR record give what facts are available: These enemy recaps contained in report #KU621 (headquarters at EUSUM) note that this plane crashed at 1255 hours (15) kilometers north of Eusum; and was identified as a B-24 with a capital letter "D" underneath a number 252083 in yellow writing and below a yellow H-Bar in capital letters within a yellow line horizontally; that the ship was 100% destroyed, probably by a fighter, and (10) crewmen were found dead with (5) of these identified as ‘unknowns'. Another exact location of this crashed ship was: 8 kilometers north of Bredstedt on the Danish peninsula.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS OF CREWMEN FATES: The only facts are those related in the German accounts which stated all crewmembers as being found killed-inaction.
BURIAL RECORDS: The enemy report of 8 January 1944 at 1545 hours, #A-LFHZ 50 1/8, to Headquarters Air District Xl in Hamburg, Germany noted that these (10) crewmen casualties were buried in a cemetery at Farm Erholung, Road Bredstedt in the Community of Bredstedt, Map Leaf 1, Plot 9. The (5) men positively identified were: Lt Lassey and Sgts. Hay, Buchert, Griffin and Surls. (Author's note: It is interesting to note that (4) of the ‘unknown' crewmen cited in the German burial report were subsequently identified by U.S. authorities as these men rest in specific grave plots in U.S. National Cemeteries overseas). U.S. interments in overseas National Cemeteries are recorded as follows: Hull in the Netherlands (Margraten) location, Grave M-20-10; Durrance in the U.S. ARDENNES Cemetery, Grave A-11 -14; Coleman in the ARDENNES, Grave C-16-16; Johnson, also in the ARDENNES location, Grave C-20-2l; and Griffin, Grave A-13-9 in the ARDENNES National cemetery. No other reports exist on the subsequent re-interment of the other (5) crewmen in any U.S. National Overseas Cemetery, if such re-burial was ever accomplished elsewhere in the case of these men from their initial burial site in Germany. The German burials took place on 6 January 1944 by the enemy reports. For the crew members now interred in the overseas National Cemeteries, it is noted that medal awards were as follows;: Hull (Air Medal); Durrance (Air Medal); Coleman (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster); Johnson (Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; and Griffin (Air Medal), and all awarded the Purple Heart. Purple Heart awards for the remaining crewmen are not recorded, if such were ever made.
The "OUT HOUSE MOUSE"
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
1/LT Robert L. Hull Pilot
2nd/Lt. Edward E. Durrance Co Pilot
2nd/Lt. Vincent B. Coleman Navigator
2nd/Lt. John E. Lessey Bombardier
T/Sgt. William R. Hay Engineer
T/Sgt. James F. Johnson Radio Op.
S/Sgt. William L. Buchert
S/Sgt. David Leon Surls
S/Sgt. Edward F Griffin
S/Sgt. Raul Vasquez
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from New York.
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