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MACR PILOT: 2Lt  Robert G.  Roeder  - O-813779
MACR: 05172 FICHE : 01855

ORGANIZATION
LOCATION: AAF Station #139 COMMAND: VIII AF GROUP: 100th Bomb Gp (H) AAF
SQUADRON: 349th BS DETACHMENT:  
     

DETAIL
DEPARTURE:AAF Station #139 INITIAL COURSE: E  
INTENDED DESTINATION: Berlin    
MISSION TYPE:Operational    

WEATHER & VISIBILITY AT TIME OF LAST REPORT
CONDITION:    

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DATE: 1944-05-24 TIME: LOCATION:

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CONFIRMED OR BELIEVED REASON FOR LOSS
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AIRCRAFT:

TYPE: B-17 SERIES:  
     
     

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MODEL: R-1820-97    
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CREW: 10 PASS: 0 TOTAL: 10

PERSONNEL:

POSITION NAME RANK SERIAL
P1
P2 Robert G.  Roeder 2Lt O-813779
CP Paul V. Lammers F/O T-61811
NAV (N) Claude E. Robison 2Lt O-746754
BOM (B) Milton Grabel TSgt 12147146
RAD Frank Goldstein TSgt 32702781
ENG Wade D. Eason TSgt 34605724
BAL Nathan E. McElroy SSgt 35343597
WG (W) William A. Poklemba SSgt 31329122
WG (W) Fred E. Cebalo SSgt 39035169
TG (T) Anthony P. Lombardi SSgt 12078664

PERSONS WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE LAST KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT

Mark v. Wilson 1Lt O-746498
Last sighted
Neal P. Scott 2Lt O-813959
Last sighted    

PERSONNEL WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE SURVIVED

REASON: Parachutes were used OTHER:  

EYEWITNESS DESCRIPTIONS OF CRASH

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PREPARING OFFICER


PREPARED BY: WALTER G. BURKE 1st Lt. Air Corps Assistant Adjutant  


DATE PREPARED:
  1944-05-27


  



TRANSCRIBER NOTES



    
    REPORT: 
Statement in MACR by Fred Cebalo -made in 1945 - follows:
 "Circumstances of loss of aircraft: On a raid to Berlin we were hit by fighters, ME 109s. They shot the left wing off. I was thrown back and trapped in the waist, fracturing my right leg. As I was trying to get out, the ship broke at the Ball Turret and tail section, I crawled to the door and jumped. I saw four other chutes as I was going down. I was caught immediately by civilians with a couple of soldiers upon landing. I was taken first to a barn, and then by a civilian to a doctor's house .There I saw the pilot and the tail gunner.

We were joined about twenty minutes later by the left waist gunner and the ball turret gunner. The pilot's right foot was shot off, and they were amputating the shreds. He was also shot in the arm. We gave him our own morphine, for the Germans had none. The tail gunner was limping, possibly from a sprained ankle. Both the left waist gunner and I had broken legs. The ball turret gunner complained of his back. They had the pilot in a separates room and the rest of us in the next room.