Casualty Report from September 11, 1944
Detail
MACR: 00001
Target: Ruhland
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 #: 42-102695
Aircraft Type: B-17G
Aircraft Name: N/A
Aircraft Code: LN-F
Pilot: 1Lt Wesley R. Carlton | O-481962
POS: P
Status: KIA
State: N/A
Notes: Final Internment-USA
Copilot: 2Lt Edward F. Neu | O-754439
POS: CP
Status: POW
State: N/A
Notes: Captured near Oberwiesenthal
NAV: 1Lt Hugh R. Davidson | O-710840
POS: NAV
Status: POW
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: N/A
Notes: Final Internment-USA
TTE: TSgt Hike B. Bagdasian | 33190910
POS: TTE
Status: KIA
State: N/A
Notes: BAGDASIAN, HIKE B TSGT US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II DATE OF DEATH: 09/11/1944 BURIED AT: SECTION 78 SITE 957-961 JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY 2900 SHERIDAN ROAD ST. LOUIS, MO 63125
BTG: SSgt Ralph E. Jacobson | 37568138
POS: BTG
Status: KIA
State: N/A
Notes: Final Internment-USA
RWG: SSgt William U. Schaefer | 36449914
POS: RWG
Status: KIA
State: N/A
Notes: Final Internment-USA
LWG: |
POS:
Status:
State:
Notes: Only Nine Man Crew.
TG: SSgt George E. Watrous | 32855846
POS: TG
Status: KIA
State: N/A
Notes: Final Internment-USA
Crew 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. "
