Lt. Martin J. Hradisky Jr., 26, of 1018 W. Seneca St., died at 1:45 p.m. (EDST) Sunday, May 19, 1946, in Fetterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.
The Army Air Forces officer, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations, died from injuries he received when a B-17 crashed near Fairfax, Calif., Thursday morning.
Two other fliers were killed in the accident and six others were injured.
The Red Cross had arranged for his mother and sister, Mrs. Louis Golway, to fly to California. They left at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and were with him at the time of his death. He never regained consciousness.
His body will be brought back to and sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Besides his parents, he is survived by 2 sisters, Mrs. Golway and Miss Ann Hradisky; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gosh of Ithaca; a nephew, Gary Golway; 3 uncles, Vincent Hradisky of Myers, Joseph Hradisky of Johnson City, and Joseph Gosh of Ithaca, and 2 aunts, Mrs. Edgar Trainor and Miss Mary Gosh of Ithaca.
Lieutenant Hradiisky * was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Finger Lakes Post. 961, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a former Boy Scout in Troop 25 of Beebe Community Chapel and a charter member of | Sea Scout Ship Spear, of which he was first mate when he entered the Army as a private in January, 1940. He was with the Fifth Bombardment Group at Hickam Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Hradisky, then a staff sergeant, received the Distinguished Flying Cross in San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1943, after his outfit had posted a record of 19 months of combat service without loss of personnel. His Flying Fortress crew was one of the oldest in point of service at that time. It was in the first American bombing of Japanese-held Wake Island and was the first to use one-ton bombs on enemy installations in the Solomons.
Published in Ithaca Journal Mon., May 20, 1946∼2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps.
Died May 19, 1946, from injuries in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress near Hamilton Field, Marin County, California, on May 16, 1946.
Reported as a resident of Ithica, N.Y.
Mothers Maiden names listed as: Gosh
The Army Air Forces officer, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations, died from injuries he received when a B-17 crashed near Fairfax, Calif., Thursday morning.
Two other fliers were killed in the accident and six others were injured.
The Red Cross had arranged for his mother and sister, Mrs. Louis Golway, to fly to California. They left at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and were with him at the time of his death. He never regained consciousness.
His body will be brought back to and sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Besides his parents, he is survived by 2 sisters, Mrs. Golway and Miss Ann Hradisky; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gosh of Ithaca; a nephew, Gary Golway; 3 uncles, Vincent Hradisky of Myers, Joseph Hradisky of Johnson City, and Joseph Gosh of Ithaca, and 2 aunts, Mrs. Edgar Trainor and Miss Mary Gosh of Ithaca.
Lieutenant Hradiisky * was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Finger Lakes Post. 961, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a former Boy Scout in Troop 25 of Beebe Community Chapel and a charter member of | Sea Scout Ship Spear, of which he was first mate when he entered the Army as a private in January, 1940. He was with the Fifth Bombardment Group at Hickam Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Hradisky, then a staff sergeant, received the Distinguished Flying Cross in San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1943, after his outfit had posted a record of 19 months of combat service without loss of personnel. His Flying Fortress crew was one of the oldest in point of service at that time. It was in the first American bombing of Japanese-held Wake Island and was the first to use one-ton bombs on enemy installations in the Solomons.
Published in Ithaca Journal Mon., May 20, 1946∼2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps.
Died May 19, 1946, from injuries in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress near Hamilton Field, Marin County, California, on May 16, 1946.
Reported as a resident of Ithica, N.Y.
Mothers Maiden names listed as: Gosh
Lt. Martin J. Hradisky Jr., 26, of 1018 W. Seneca St., died at 1:45 p.m. (EDST) Sunday, May 19, 1946, in Fetterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif.
The Army Air Forces officer, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations, died from injuries he received when a B-17 crashed near Fairfax, Calif., Thursday morning.
Two other fliers were killed in the accident and six others were injured.
The Red Cross had arranged for his mother and sister, Mrs. Louis Golway, to fly to California. They left at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and were with him at the time of his death. He never regained consciousness.
His body will be brought back to and sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Besides his parents, he is survived by 2 sisters, Mrs. Golway and Miss Ann Hradisky; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gosh of Ithaca; a nephew, Gary Golway; 3 uncles, Vincent Hradisky of Myers, Joseph Hradisky of Johnson City, and Joseph Gosh of Ithaca, and 2 aunts, Mrs. Edgar Trainor and Miss Mary Gosh of Ithaca.
Lieutenant Hradiisky * was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Finger Lakes Post. 961, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a former Boy Scout in Troop 25 of Beebe Community Chapel and a charter member of | Sea Scout Ship Spear, of which he was first mate when he entered the Army as a private in January, 1940. He was with the Fifth Bombardment Group at Hickam Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Hradisky, then a staff sergeant, received the Distinguished Flying Cross in San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1943, after his outfit had posted a record of 19 months of combat service without loss of personnel. His Flying Fortress crew was one of the oldest in point of service at that time. It was in the first American bombing of Japanese-held Wake Island and was the first to use one-ton bombs on enemy installations in the Solomons.
Published in Ithaca Journal Mon., May 20, 1946∼2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps.
Died May 19, 1946, from injuries in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress near Hamilton Field, Marin County, California, on May 16, 1946.
Reported as a resident of Ithica, N.Y.
Mothers Maiden names listed as: Gosh
The Army Air Forces officer, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in the Pacific Theater of Operations, died from injuries he received when a B-17 crashed near Fairfax, Calif., Thursday morning.
Two other fliers were killed in the accident and six others were injured.
The Red Cross had arranged for his mother and sister, Mrs. Louis Golway, to fly to California. They left at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and were with him at the time of his death. He never regained consciousness.
His body will be brought back to and sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Besides his parents, he is survived by 2 sisters, Mrs. Golway and Miss Ann Hradisky; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gosh of Ithaca; a nephew, Gary Golway; 3 uncles, Vincent Hradisky of Myers, Joseph Hradisky of Johnson City, and Joseph Gosh of Ithaca, and 2 aunts, Mrs. Edgar Trainor and Miss Mary Gosh of Ithaca.
Lieutenant Hradiisky * was a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Finger Lakes Post. 961, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a former Boy Scout in Troop 25 of Beebe Community Chapel and a charter member of | Sea Scout Ship Spear, of which he was first mate when he entered the Army as a private in January, 1940. He was with the Fifth Bombardment Group at Hickam Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Hradisky, then a staff sergeant, received the Distinguished Flying Cross in San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1943, after his outfit had posted a record of 19 months of combat service without loss of personnel. His Flying Fortress crew was one of the oldest in point of service at that time. It was in the first American bombing of Japanese-held Wake Island and was the first to use one-ton bombs on enemy installations in the Solomons.
Published in Ithaca Journal Mon., May 20, 1946∼2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps.
Died May 19, 1946, from injuries in the crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress near Hamilton Field, Marin County, California, on May 16, 1946.
Reported as a resident of Ithica, N.Y.
Mothers Maiden names listed as: Gosh
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