Second Lieutenant Everitt F. Goethe, Army serial number O-811068, was born in New York in 1918, and lived in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. He completed three years of college, and worked in a skilled occupation in the building of aircraft. He was single, without dependents, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York, on August 20, 1942. After training, he was assigned as a heavy bomber pilot in the 837th Bomb Squadron of the 487th Bomb Group at Lavenham, England – part of the 8th U.S. Army Air Force. On May 20, 1944, the 487th Bomb Group took off from Lavenham Airfield to bomb a target at Liege, Belgium. Visibility was poor due to fog. Lt Goethe's crew took off in B-24H 42-52743. The aircraft lost its number two engine soon after takeoff, and Goethe was unable to climb or maintain altitude. The aircraft crashed and burned near Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk, England. Lt Goethe and five members of his crew were killed in the crash. Four men survived. Lt Goethe's remains were returned to the United States after the war and reinterred at Hillside Cemetery on August 7, 1948. He is buried in the Goethe family plot at Oak Knoll, Section 3, Lot 19, Grave 1.
Sources:
1. Cemetery records of Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor, NY
2. de Jong, Ivo. 'The History of the 487th Bomb Group (H)'. Paducah KY: Turner Publishing, Oct 2004
3. Enlistment record of Everitt F. Goethe at the U.S. National Archives
4. U.S. War Department. 'World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel'. Washington, D.C., June 1946
(Info courtesy of Paul Webber)
Sources:
1. Cemetery records of Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor, NY
2. de Jong, Ivo. 'The History of the 487th Bomb Group (H)'. Paducah KY: Turner Publishing, Oct 2004
3. Enlistment record of Everitt F. Goethe at the U.S. National Archives
4. U.S. War Department. 'World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel'. Washington, D.C., June 1946
(Info courtesy of Paul Webber)
Second Lieutenant Everitt F. Goethe, Army serial number O-811068, was born in New York in 1918, and lived in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. He completed three years of college, and worked in a skilled occupation in the building of aircraft. He was single, without dependents, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York, on August 20, 1942. After training, he was assigned as a heavy bomber pilot in the 837th Bomb Squadron of the 487th Bomb Group at Lavenham, England – part of the 8th U.S. Army Air Force. On May 20, 1944, the 487th Bomb Group took off from Lavenham Airfield to bomb a target at Liege, Belgium. Visibility was poor due to fog. Lt Goethe's crew took off in B-24H 42-52743. The aircraft lost its number two engine soon after takeoff, and Goethe was unable to climb or maintain altitude. The aircraft crashed and burned near Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk, England. Lt Goethe and five members of his crew were killed in the crash. Four men survived. Lt Goethe's remains were returned to the United States after the war and reinterred at Hillside Cemetery on August 7, 1948. He is buried in the Goethe family plot at Oak Knoll, Section 3, Lot 19, Grave 1.
Sources:
1. Cemetery records of Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor, NY
2. de Jong, Ivo. 'The History of the 487th Bomb Group (H)'. Paducah KY: Turner Publishing, Oct 2004
3. Enlistment record of Everitt F. Goethe at the U.S. National Archives
4. U.S. War Department. 'World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel'. Washington, D.C., June 1946
(Info courtesy of Paul Webber)
Sources:
1. Cemetery records of Hillside Cemetery, Cortlandt Manor, NY
2. de Jong, Ivo. 'The History of the 487th Bomb Group (H)'. Paducah KY: Turner Publishing, Oct 2004
3. Enlistment record of Everitt F. Goethe at the U.S. National Archives
4. U.S. War Department. 'World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel'. Washington, D.C., June 1946
(Info courtesy of Paul Webber)
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