Gerald Lee Anderson
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 64827 - Gerald Lee Anderson, Tail Gunner, 544th Bomb Squad, 384th Bomb Group
Assigned to 544BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgburg in B-17 43-37822 'Lead Banana' 28-Sep-44; Collided with 42-31222 'Lazy Daisy' coming off target, crashed near Ost Ingersleben. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5793
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Born |
Dunning, NE | 20 June 1922 | Son of Ernest W and Verna E [Yost] Andersen. |
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Died |
Ostingerslebe, Germany | 28 September 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Madgburg 28-Sep-44; Collided with B-17 coming off target, crashed near Ost Ingersleben. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 5793 |
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Buried |
Ostingerslebe, Germany | 29 September 1944 | Interred Ostingerslebe cemetery |
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Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Grafton Underwood | 28 September 1944 | Assigned to 544BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Born |
Stromberg, Nebraska | NoK; wife Esther E Coolen Andersen. | |
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Buried |
Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, Lincoln County, NE | Re-Interred Fort McPherson National Cemetery Maxwell, Lincoln County, NE Section F, Site 1229 |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9753 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database