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SGT Robert L Rakouska

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SGT Robert L Rakouska Veteran

Birth
Death
2 Nov 1944 (aged 22)
Burial
Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Plot: C Row: 7 Grave: 7
Memorial ID
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Sergeant, 735 AAF Bomb Squadron, 453 Bomb

Group, World War II.


Shot down by flak aboard B-24H Liberator

#42-64469 "EL-FLACO" on the aircraft's 78th

mission, a mission to bomb oil refineries at

Castrop-Rauxel, and crashed at Luenen-Sud,

Germany.


10 crew KIA:


2nd Lt. Carl Isaksen

2nd Lt. Earl L Johnson

2nd Lt. Malcolm H Rubin

2nd Lt. Vanig Vartanian

Sgt. Edwin W. Bringardner, Jr.

Sgt. James A Dietrich

Sgt. Robert L Perrin

SSgt. James E Phillips

Sgt. Robert L Rakouska

Sgt. Dewey D Steele


Submitted by Tim Cook

~

Entered the service from Illinois.

Sergeant, 735 AAF Bomb Squadron, 453 Bomb

Group, World War II.


Shot down by flak aboard B-24H Liberator

#42-64469 "EL-FLACO" on the aircraft's 78th

mission, a mission to bomb oil refineries at

Castrop-Rauxel, and crashed at Luenen-Sud,

Germany.


10 crew KIA:


2nd Lt. Carl Isaksen

2nd Lt. Earl L Johnson

2nd Lt. Malcolm H Rubin

2nd Lt. Vanig Vartanian

Sgt. Edwin W. Bringardner, Jr.

Sgt. James A Dietrich

Sgt. Robert L Perrin

SSgt. James E Phillips

Sgt. Robert L Rakouska

Sgt. Dewey D Steele


Submitted by Tim Cook

~

Entered the service from Illinois.


Inscription

SGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II


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  • Maintained by: Bonnie1man
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56360440/robert_l-rakouska: accessed ), memorial page for SGT Robert L Rakouska (21 Jun 1922–2 Nov 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56360440, citing Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium; Maintained by Bonnie1man (contributor 47453113).