Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
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SSGT US Army. Veteran Service Dates from 07-07-1942 to 07-07-1944.
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
~
SSGT US Army. Veteran Service Dates from 07-07-1942 to 07-07-1944.
Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
~
SSGT US Army. Veteran Service Dates from 07-07-1942 to 07-07-1944.
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
~
SSGT US Army. Veteran Service Dates from 07-07-1942 to 07-07-1944.
Gravesite Details
Interment date December 10, 1948.
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