Morris I Tauber
Military ROLL OF HONOURKilled in Action (KIA) on 4-Feb-1943 in B-17F 41-24593 'El Lobo' while serving as Waist Gunner. Target was Hamm, but aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with a German FW 190 and crashed in tidal land at Filsum/Ostfriesland near Leer, Germany. 6 crew members were killed and 4 became Prisoner of War (POW)s.
POW
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: El Lobo
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 4 February 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Kings County, New York | 5 April 1905 | |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Filsum, Germany | 4 February 1943 | Killed when aiscraft sustained a mid-air collision with a German FW190 fighter and crashed at Filsum, Germany |
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Buried |
New Jersey, USA | Originally buried in the Ardennes American Cemetery but his remains were repatriated after the war to New Jersey. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 28-Jan-2015. Added decorations and Burial event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; Added SN an KIA event per MACR 15395; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited Biography, added crew position and crash location to Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15395, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop and Hey, p .73, WWII National Monument , National Archives lists as KIA with no POW record