Herbert Joseph Gotha

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down by fighters on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-37819 crashed NE of Brunswick, GR. Killed in Action (KIA).



AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.

388th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-37819

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Paxton, Massachusetts, USA

Buried

Died

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 8 March 1944

Revisions

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Sources

Added middle name per MACR 3087 at fold3.com.

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Sources

ABMC, MACR 3087, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3087 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database