Jerome A Korte
Military
Object Number - UPL 64722 - Jerome A Korte
Jerome Korte completed his basic training at Keesler Field, Miss., and attended gunnery school at Harlingen, Texas.
Before enlisting, he attended the Frye Aircraft School in St. Louis. He was later employed at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in San Diego, Calif.
He was the son of John G. and Emma (Benke) Korte, who lived north of Pierron.
He served as a flight engineer/gunner with the 448th Bomb Group. He arrived as part of a replacement crew on 17 November 1944. He was killed in an aircraft crash in England less than a month later, on 7 December 1944.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group 715th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Enlisted |
Peoria, IL, USA | 16 March 1943 | |
|
Based |
Seething | 17 November 1944 - 7 December 1944 | |
|
Died |
7 December 1944 | Aged 24 | |
|
Buried |
Plot F Row 2 Grave 29 | ||
| California, USA | Exact date not yet known | ||
|
Born |
Highland, IL 62249, USA | Exact date not yet known |
Revisions
Combined two entries for Jerome Korte. This entry now includes information from the following sources:
ABMC record: http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…
Belleville News Democrat article: http://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/highland-news-leader/article214…
'A Replacement Crew in the ETO' pdf available here: http://willisrowe.com/DownloadableFiles/ROWE%20CREW.pdf
Findagrave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=korte&GSbyrel=all…;
WWII enlistment record: http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=6455275
Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
