Casualty Report from September 11, 1944
Detail
MACR: 08817
Target: Ruhland, Germany
Base: Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, England
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.
Squadron: 350th BS - 100th BG(H)
Aircraft
Aircraft #: 42-97154
Aircraft Type: B-17G
Aircraft Name: Our Babe Hutchie
Aircraft Code: LD-A
Pilot: 1Lt Wesley R. Carlton | O-481962
POS: P
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
Copilot: 2Lt Edward F. Neu | O-754439
POS: CP
Status: POW
State: State N/A
Notes: Captured near Oberwiesenthal
NAV: 1Lt Hugh R. Davidson | O-710840
POS: NAV
Status: POW
State: State N/A
Notes: Captured by Gestapo near Eger
BOM: 1Lt Jack L. Eppendorf | O-684143
POS: BOM
Status: KIA
State: California
Notes: Killed in the air - Final Internment - USA
ROG: TSgt Milton S. Edelstein | 11110130
POS: ROG
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
TTE: TSgt Hike H. Bagdasian | 33190910
POS: TTE
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
BTG: SSgt Ralph E. Jacobson | 37568138
POS: BTG
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
RWG: SSgt William U. Schaefer | 36449914
POS: RWG
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
LWG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: LWG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
TG: SSgt George E. Watrous | 32855846
POS: TG
Status: KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: Final Internment - USA
EX1: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | N/A
POS: N/A
Status: N/A
State: State N/A
Notes: 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
Notes: "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. "
Crew Notes
Notes on this crew N/A
Report Notes
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