Sydney Berk

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 41-24489 'Terry and the Pirates' while serving as Navigator. Killed in Action (KIA).

Connections

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Terry and the Pirates
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

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Killed in Action (KIA)

Paris, France 20 December 1942 Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed near Paris, France

Buried

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) does not have a record of this airman as being buried in any American Cemetery in Europe nor is he listed on any Wall of the Missing. However, the other KIAs in this crew are in the Epinal American Cemetery. There are two possibilities: either his remains were never recovered from the crashed aircraft; OR his remains were at one time at Epinal and were repatriated after the war to the United States.

Revisions

Date
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources

Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added crew position to description and KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added Burial event data based on my own research; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55