2/Lt. Warren E. HUBER, 405 FG

[Six Nifty .50s]

Originally Posted by Six Nifty .50s

Pierre,

Reginald G. Nolte, who published a 405th Fighter Group history in 1986, said that 2nd Lt. Warren E. Huber was KIA on 9 August 1944 but that his service records could not be located at the Washington D.C. Memorial Records Center nor in the Army Personnel Records at St. Louis. There was a fire at the St. Louis facility in the 1970s, and apparently Huber's file was among those destroyed.

He did not provide other information about Lt. Huber.

Correction. I rechecked another section of Reginald Nolte's Thunder Monsters Over Europe and on p.38 it says:

" ... On the 9th of August the 405th FG provided cover for the XX Corps throughout the day, attacking M/T, railroad cars, locomotives, and miscellaneous rolling stock. Lieutenant Warren E. Huber was hit by flak and was reported MIA ... "

Unless there is a mistake, it would seem that there was more than one man named Warren Huber who was killed flying P-47s.