Jess Joe Gomez

Military

Hit by flak and later by fighters after falling out of formation on a mission to Genshagen near Berlin on 6 March 1944, B-24H #42-52306 crashed near Uelzen, East of Münster, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW).

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Casimir Joseph Kolezynski

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15130839 at enlistment, then O-693687
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Carl Milton Lash

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 06668028
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Conrad Charles Lunz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33502423
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Jessie Lee McMains

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39151918 at enlistment, then O-683737
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Texas, United States 22 February 1923

Enlisted

21 April 1943 Denver, Colorado

Other

Prisoner Of War (POW)

6 March 1944 after bailing out of B-24H #42-52306

Died

22 April 2013
San Francisco, California

Buried

Jee Gomez rests at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado

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MACR 3349
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
SSDI (Social Security Death Index)
VA Gravesite Locator

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3349 / MACR 3349, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 276 of the book LIBERATORS OVER EUROPE by Mackay, Bailey & Scorza, D790G458 &

href="http://www.458bg.com/crew29mcmains.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew29mcmains.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database