U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #38367805
Enlistment Date: 02/08/1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
John B. Frisbie is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Starr County, Texas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists residence as 406 West 6th, Apt. 4, Junction City, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Fae Gertrude Frisbie (Wife) of same address. Place of birth listed as Guthrie, Oklahoma on 02/14/1909. Middle name listed as Bryan. Employed by War Department, U.S.A., Fort Riley, Kansas as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/john-bryan-frisbie
Ball Turret Gunner on B-17G-15-VE Flying Fortress #42-97501. Failed to return from mission to Berlin with Elmer Johnson, Co-pilot: Bob Stevenson, Navigator: Adger Matthews, Bombardier: Les Walker, Radio Operator: Orville Springstead, Ball turret gunner: John Frisbie, Waist gunner: John Hoegen, Waist gunner: Doug Irvine, Tail gunner: Tom Sproat (9 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Kotulak (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #3, aircraft exploded before crew could bale out, crashed Siestedt, six miles NE of Helmstedt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 4253.
***I would like to thank Shirley Hause Find A Grave ID 47079931 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Vanita White Hazelrigg Find A Grave ID 48477586 for updating his mother's information on this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 02/08/1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
John B. Frisbie is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Starr County, Texas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists residence as 406 West 6th, Apt. 4, Junction City, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Fae Gertrude Frisbie (Wife) of same address. Place of birth listed as Guthrie, Oklahoma on 02/14/1909. Middle name listed as Bryan. Employed by War Department, U.S.A., Fort Riley, Kansas as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/john-bryan-frisbie
Ball Turret Gunner on B-17G-15-VE Flying Fortress #42-97501. Failed to return from mission to Berlin with Elmer Johnson, Co-pilot: Bob Stevenson, Navigator: Adger Matthews, Bombardier: Les Walker, Radio Operator: Orville Springstead, Ball turret gunner: John Frisbie, Waist gunner: John Hoegen, Waist gunner: Doug Irvine, Tail gunner: Tom Sproat (9 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Kotulak (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #3, aircraft exploded before crew could bale out, crashed Siestedt, six miles NE of Helmstedt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 4253.
***I would like to thank Shirley Hause Find A Grave ID 47079931 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Vanita White Hazelrigg Find A Grave ID 48477586 for updating his mother's information on this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #38367805
Enlistment Date: 02/08/1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
John B. Frisbie is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Starr County, Texas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists residence as 406 West 6th, Apt. 4, Junction City, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Fae Gertrude Frisbie (Wife) of same address. Place of birth listed as Guthrie, Oklahoma on 02/14/1909. Middle name listed as Bryan. Employed by War Department, U.S.A., Fort Riley, Kansas as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/john-bryan-frisbie
Ball Turret Gunner on B-17G-15-VE Flying Fortress #42-97501. Failed to return from mission to Berlin with Elmer Johnson, Co-pilot: Bob Stevenson, Navigator: Adger Matthews, Bombardier: Les Walker, Radio Operator: Orville Springstead, Ball turret gunner: John Frisbie, Waist gunner: John Hoegen, Waist gunner: Doug Irvine, Tail gunner: Tom Sproat (9 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Kotulak (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #3, aircraft exploded before crew could bale out, crashed Siestedt, six miles NE of Helmstedt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 4253.
***I would like to thank Shirley Hause Find A Grave ID 47079931 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Vanita White Hazelrigg Find A Grave ID 48477586 for updating his mother's information on this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 02/08/1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
John B. Frisbie is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Starr County, Texas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists residence as 406 West 6th, Apt. 4, Junction City, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Fae Gertrude Frisbie (Wife) of same address. Place of birth listed as Guthrie, Oklahoma on 02/14/1909. Middle name listed as Bryan. Employed by War Department, U.S.A., Fort Riley, Kansas as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/john-bryan-frisbie
Ball Turret Gunner on B-17G-15-VE Flying Fortress #42-97501. Failed to return from mission to Berlin with Elmer Johnson, Co-pilot: Bob Stevenson, Navigator: Adger Matthews, Bombardier: Les Walker, Radio Operator: Orville Springstead, Ball turret gunner: John Frisbie, Waist gunner: John Hoegen, Waist gunner: Doug Irvine, Tail gunner: Tom Sproat (9 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Kotulak (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #3, aircraft exploded before crew could bale out, crashed Siestedt, six miles NE of Helmstedt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 4253.
***I would like to thank Shirley Hause Find A Grave ID 47079931 for creating this memorial in addition to adding the gravesite photo to it***
***I would like to thank Vanita White Hazelrigg Find A Grave ID 48477586 for updating his mother's information on this memorial***
Gravesite Details
Overseas Find A Grave Memorial ID 56655208 Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial
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Records on Ancestry
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U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
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Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
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1920 United States Federal Census
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Kansas, U.S., State Census Collection, 1855-1925
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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