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Re: 454th BG 737 Sq-Casualties July 16,1944
Hello,
There was one other casualty aboard the 737BS/454BG B-24 on 16 July, 1944:
2Lt Carroll L. Wattenbarger O-535004.
Killed 16 Jul 44, a week after his 22nd birthday when his B-24 (ser. # unknown) was returning from having bombed Muenchendorf aerodrome, near Vienna, Austria, when it crash-landed on Vis. In December 1946 his remains were reinterred (from Milna Allied War Cemetery, Vis), in the US. Military Cemetery, Belgrade, Plot B, Row 11, Grave 266. Upon closure of that cemetery in 1948, his remains were repatriated and permanently reinterred in Forest Hill Cemetery, Canton, South Dakota.
See:
Vis - The Last Hope RAF Station Vis 1944-1945.
Frka, Danijel.
Zagreb: Despot Infinitus,2021.
p.379.
Col.
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