Engineer T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes, KIA
Home: Akron, Ohio.
Unit: 564th Bomb Sq 389th Bomb Gp
Service ID: 15072927.
Entered the service from Ohio.
Pilot Capt William P. Bates, KIA
Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
Home: Akron, Ohio.
Unit: 564th Bomb Sq 389th Bomb Gp
Service ID: 15072927.
Entered the service from Ohio.
Pilot Capt William P. Bates, KIA
Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
Engineer T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes, KIA
Home: Akron, Ohio.
Unit: 564th Bomb Sq 389th Bomb Gp
Service ID: 15072927.
Entered the service from Ohio.
Pilot Capt William P. Bates, KIA
Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
Home: Akron, Ohio.
Unit: 564th Bomb Sq 389th Bomb Gp
Service ID: 15072927.
Entered the service from Ohio.
Pilot Capt William P. Bates, KIA
Target: Halle, Germany
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR #: 7492.
Date Lost: 7-Jul-44
Serial Number: 42-51144
Aircraft Model B-24HSH-25-DT
Aircraft Letter: A
Aircraft Name:
Location: 20 miles N. of Halle
Cause: AA damage led to mid-air collision with 492nd BG B-24. 10 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: This aircraft with Command Pilot Capt. Walter Beckett aboard was leading the 453rd Bomb Group & 2nd Combat Wing when at 0927 it collided head-on with an unidentified B-24 of another group. Both aircraft went down. Three chutes observed. Capt. Beckett, Lt. Kosky, and FO Saugen were survivors from 42-51144.
Five 389th BG aircraft are lost on a mission to Halle, Germany.
Crew killed in action:
Capt. William P. Bates
1st/Lt. Otto W. Becker
1Lt Frank E. Nadler
1Lt Wilfred J. Thom
T/Sgt Walter W. Berg
T/Sgt Robert Lastrapes
S/Sgt Kenneth M. Berry
S/Sgt William Bilowich
S/Sgt Jack T. Reynolds
S/Sgt Ansley Thompson
Inscription
T SGT 564 BOMB SQ 389 BOMB GP (H)
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