Julius W KRAFFT

 

KRAFFT Julius W
NUMBER OF SERVICEO-735399
AGE27 yo
DATE OF BIRTH--
ETATDenver, COLORADO
FAMILY--
RANK2nd Lieutenant
FONCTIONPilot
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT-CO
DATE of ENLISTEMENT-
 SQUADRON524th Bomb Squadron
 GROUP379th Bomb Group
ARMY8th US Air force
DATE OF DEATH3 september 1943krafft julius tombe
STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATHLieu-dit La Livrée -  EPINAY
DATA PLAN

 B-17 Fortress - type F-45-DL - s/n 42-3300 WA*F

b17

Macr: 1349

Mission: Evreux-Fauville (27)

Take-off station 117 Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire UK

The 3 bodies were originally buried in Bernay (27)

The plane carrying 10 people ignited before crashing. The other seven were arrested and released in 1945.

Shot by the flak at 9:55

Airplane partially evacuated before the explosion of the aircraft

 

CEMETERY COMMUNAL

 

COMMUNAL CEMETERY of Bernay
CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
B2111
DECORATION

Air Medal + Oak LEaf Cluster

Purple Heart

 

am olc

Photo FDLM

 

 

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STORY
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Crew of  B-17 Fortress - type F-45-DL - s/n 42-3300 WA*F

 

2nd Lieutenant Julius W KRAFFT
Pilote Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer

O-735399 - AM+1/PH - Denver, Colorado -

Corps retrouvé dans l'avion

2nd Lieutenant Norman Eugène TOFT CoPilot Prisonner

O-680768 - Né 12/05/1920 - Fallon, Nevada -

Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang

2nd Lieutenant Ronald William JACOBS Navigator Prisonner

O-683244 - Né 30/09/1917 - Canton, Ohio -

Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Donald PEIFER Bomber Prisonner

O-729494 - Maywood, Illinois -

Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12

S/Sergeant Morrison T NOLAN

Engineer

Gunner

Prisonner

18115971 - Né 14/08/1916 - Galveston, Texas -

Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia

T/Sergeant Hugh Mc KEEGAN Radio Prisonner

32408952 - Brooklyn, New York - Blessé pendant le saut et hospitalisé -Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow

S/Sergeant Frank P FRYDRYK
Gunner Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer

31124475 - AM+1/PH - New Haven,Connecticut  -Se tue en atterrissant dans un arbre

S/Sergeant Robert A VANDEGRIFF Gunner Prisonner

35474902 - Né 08/01/1920 - Cincinnati, Ohio - Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia

T/Sergeant Donald B ARMSTRONG
Gunner Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer

35467488 - AM+1/PH - Excello, Ohio -

Corps retrouvé dans l'avion

T/Sergeant Delbert William KLUMP Gunner Prisonner

35267771 - Né 23/06/1920 - Newport, Kentucky -Stalag 17B

b 17
equipage 42 3300 image

SOURCE INFORMATION & PHOTOFrancecrashes39-45.net - Frédéric LAVERNHE - Aerosteles.net - Findagrave.com
PROGRAMMERFrédéric & Renaud
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