August Kurjack

Military
media-19602.jpeg UPL 19602 Staff Sgt August Kurjack cameraman on Mosquito MM370 tasked with the filming of an Aphrodite drone bomb attack on the submarine pens of Le Havre. KIA when the A/C crashed after being hit by the bomb blast.

Object Number - UPL 19602 - Staff Sgt August Kurjack cameraman on Mosquito MM370 tasked with the filming of an Aphrodite drone bomb attack on the submarine pens of Le Havre. KIA...

On 13-Aug-44, pilot Lt Dean Sanner and cameraman Kurjack were on a photo reconnaissance of drone bomber (Aphrodite)attack on Le Havre E-boat pens in Mosquito MM370. The pilot in his eagerness to do a great job stayed too low, and his plane flew through the bomb blast, causing it to crash. Killed in Action (KIA).



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19073772 / O-684056
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 802nd Reconnaissance Group (SP) 654th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 13 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Allegheny County, PA, USA 1 July 1915 Son of Joseph and Irma Kurjack.

Enlisted

Pennsylvania, USA 18 September 1939 Pennsylvania

Died

Le Havre, France 13 August 1944 The pilot of Mosquito MM370 in his eagerness to do a great job stayed too low, and his plane flew through the bomb blast, causing it to crash. Killed in Action (KIA).
Pennsylvania, USA

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery, Neupre, Belgium.

Revisions

Date
ContributorWattonman
Changes
Sources

Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Combat Chronology Supplements p. 540 and 193, Aerial Intelligence of the 8th AF,  p.175 The 25th Bomb Group Book (rcn) in World War II by Norman Malayney / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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