Assigned to 512FS, 406FG, 9AF USAAF. On 27-Dec-44, 2 Lt. Eymer, flying P-47D Thunderbolt 42-22459 in a flight of the 512th, took off from A-80 on a ground support mission to Bastogne, Belgium, where the 101st Airborne Division was under heavy German siege. The 512th flight was dropping napalm bombs on an armored convoy six miles northwest of Bastogne. 2 Lt. Eymer was hit by flak and was informed that his plane was smoking very much. He was radioed to go to Bastogne and bail out if the plane was shot up too much. There was no reply. He was seen over Bastogne where the plane rolled over, went into a spin, crashed, and burned. He was not observed leaving the plane. MACR 11481 Killed in Action (KIA)

Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.