Edward August Kussler

Military

Assigned to 767BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 41-28913; shot down by Fw190. Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 10652



Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-24 Liberator of the 461st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force drops supplies over a Prisoner of War camp in Austria, May 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 May 1945, Last 'combat' mission of 461st BG to British POW camp near Villack, Austria. #33 flown by Lt John Stegman- 765th BS.'

461st Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Adolph Galvan

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 767th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19103687 / O-672598
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

41-28913

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 765th Bomb Squadron 767th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Torretta

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Cerignola #3

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Morris, IL 10 December 1924 Son of August and Marie [Rumpf] Kussler.

Enlisted

Camp Grant, IL 12 December 1942 Camp Grant, Illinois

Enlisted

Pueblo, CO 9 August 1944 Married Mary Jo Weimer in Pueblo, Colorado.

Other

Force landed POW

Roznava, Hungary 17 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 41-28913; shot down by Fw190. POW MACR 10652

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

17 December 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Died

Lincolnshire, IL 24 December 2012

Buried

Evergreen Cemetery, Morris, IL 27 December 2012 Evergreen Cemetery Morris, Grundy County, IL

Based

Torretta 17 December 1944 Assigned to 767BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF.

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