Joseph E Haas
Military ROLL OF HONOURIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
1LT Joseph E. Haas was assigned as Pilot of B-17F 41-24558 [VJ:F] "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on 10-Sep-42 at Kellog Field, Battle Creek, Michigan. He arrived with the aircraft at Molesworth, UK on 16-Oct-42. He flew B-17F 41-24558 on 6 Operations - 1 Aborted. On 23-Jan-43 he was assigned to fly B-17F 41-24567 [PU:J] "Beats Me", 303BG/360BS, his seventh operation, and was Killed in Action (KIA). (See Biography events).
23 January 1943 - Killed in Action (KIA) in B-17F 41-24567 "Beats Me" while serving as Pilot. Aircraft was struck by a bomb dropped from above and crashed into the woods at Bois de Queronic, near Pluvinger, France.
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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 23 January 1943
- Date: 13 January 1943
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 23 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Unit |
Battle Creek, MI, USA | 10 September 1942 | Assigned as Pilot of B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS at Kellog Field, Battle Creek, Michigan. |
Other Arrived at Station |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 16 October 1942 | Arrived at Molesworth, UK with B-17F 42-44558 " Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS. |
Other Mission #1 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS - Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 17 November 1942 | Served as Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France, but mechanical failures forced him to abort the mission (RTB OK). |
Other Mission #2 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B17-F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
18 November 1942 | Served as Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France (RTB OK). | |
Other Mission #3 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 23 November 1942 | Served as Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France (RTB OK). |
Other Mission #4 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
Rouen, France | 12 December 1942 | Served as Co-Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Roeun, France. MAJ Clemens K. Wurzbach, Commanding Officer, 358BS was the Command Pilot (RTB OK) |
Other Mission #5 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
Romilly-sur-Seine, France | 20 December 1942 | Served as Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France (RTB OK). |
Other Mission #6 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24558, 303BG/358BS |
Lille, France | 13 January 1943 | Served as Pilot in B-17F 41-24558 "Hunga Dunga", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the Fives Company Locomotive Works at Lille, France (RTB OK). |
Other Mission #7 1LT Joseph E. Haas w/B-17F 41-24567, 303BG/360BS KIA |
Lorient, France | 23 January 1943 | Served as Pilot of B-17F 41-24567 "Beats Me", 303BG/360BS on a mission to bomb the port areas of Lorient, France. Aircraft was struck by bomb from above and crashed. He was Killed in Action (KIA) |
Buried |
Rock Island, IL, USA | The remains of all 7 of the KIA crew members were recovered from their burial locations near the crashed site and were repatriated after the war for a Group Burial at the Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois. | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Pluvigner, France | 23 January 1943 | Killed when aircraft was struck by a bomb dropped from above and crashed into the woods at Bois de Queronic, near Pluvinger, France. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2015. Corrected last mission nuber to #7 and added burial location per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #7 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 23-Jan-43, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/011.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #6 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 13-Jan-43, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/010.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #5 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 20-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/007.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #4 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 12-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 23-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/004.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission 32 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 18-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/002.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 17-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/001.pdf
Lee Cunningham 20-Aug-2015. Added Operation participation information to Summary Biography per 3O3BG website crew page of 1LT Joseph E. Hass, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-358-haas.html; Added Assigned to Unit and Arrived at Station events per: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-358-haas.html.
Lee Cunningham 21-Jan-2015. Made connections to Place and Mission within existing website data; Added KIA description Burial description and Biography narrative per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE, also reference MACR 15571.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15571 / MACR 15571,Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Hey Vol. 1 p. 65 , Roster / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database