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Casualty Report from 1944-09-11

MACR: 08817 AIRCRAFT: 42-97154
TARGET: Ruhland, Germany TYPE: B-17G
BASE: Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, England NAME: Our Babe Hutchie
SQUADRON: 350th BS - 100th BG(H) AIRCRAFT CODE: LD-A
CRASH: 

Destroyed by enemy fighters. Reported to have exploded in the air with some of the crew being blown clear of the aircraft. Wreckage site near Annaberg, south of Dresden, Germany. Seven of the nine man crew were killed. German records indicate that T/Sgt Milton S. Edelstein was interred in the local cemetery at Oberwiesenthal and T/Sgt Mike Bagdasian was interred in the cemetery of Crottesdorf/Erzgebirge. It is likely the remaining five KIAs were also interred at Oberwiesenthal.

After the war the US Graves Registration Service exhumed the bodies and re-interred them in Ardennes. Plots HH-4-95/100 and II-4-76/82. The US Graves Registration Service, like the Germans, could not individually identify the airmen. All received a Common Plot in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri on February 27th, 1950, Plot 78/957-961, Group Burial 1200/570.

PILOT: 1Lt Wesley R. Carlton - O-481962
POS: P STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A

NOTES:

Final Internment - USA

CO PILOT: 2Lt Edward F. Neu - O-754439
POS: CP STATUS: POW STATE: State N/A
Captured near Oberwiesenthal

NAV: 1Lt Hugh R. Davidson - O-710840
POS: NAV STATUS: POW STATE: State N/A
Captured by Gestapo near Eger

BOM:1Lt Jack L. Eppendorf - O-684143
POS: BOM STATUS: KIA STATE: California
Killed in the air - Final Internment - USA

ROG: TSgt Milton S. Edelstein - 11110130
POS: ROG STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A
Final Internment - USA

TTE: TSgt Hike H. Bagdasian - 33190910
POS: TTE STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A
Final Internment - USA

BTG: SSgt Ralph E. Jacobson - 37568138
POS: BTG STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A
Final Internment - USA

RWG: SSgt William U. Schaefer - 36449914
POS: RWG STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A
Final Internment - USA

LWG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name - 00000000
POS: LWG STATUS: MIA/KIA STATE: State N/A
No notes on this crewmember

TG: SSgt George E. Watrous - 32855846
POS: TG STATUS: KIA STATE: State N/A
Final Internment - USA

EX1: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name - N/A
POS: N/A STATUS: N/A STATE: State N/A
No notes on this crewmember

EX2: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name - N/A
POS: N/A STATUS: N/A STATE: State N/A
"Destroyed by enemy fighters. Reported to have exploded in the air with some of the crew being blown clear of the aircraft. Wreckage site near Annaberg, south of Dresden, Germany. Seven of the nine man crew were killed. German records indicate that T/Sgt Milton S. Edelstein was interred in the local cemetery at Oberwiesenthal and T/Sgt Mike Bagdasian was interred in the cemetery of Crottesdorf/Erzgebirge. It is likely the remaining five KIAs were also interred at Oberwiesenthal. After the war the US Graves Registration Service exhumed the bodies and re-interred them in Ardennes. Plots HH-4-95/100 and II-4-76/82. The US Graves Registration Service, like the Germans, could not individually identify the airmen. All received a Common Plot in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri on February 27th, 1950, Plot 78/957-961, Group Burial 1200/570. Lt Teague-Bom, T/Sgt Runyan-TTE and Lt Nielsen-NAV who are also in the mass grave, were from the crew of Lt Harold Taylor. From Carlton Crew: Edelstein, Bagdasian, Watrous, Jacobson, Schaefer, and Eppendorf. "

 

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