Joseph F Sproha Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssociated person record.
Corporal, 381st BG, 533rd BS, 8th AF. KIS 23 June 1943 when bombs loaded into B17 #42-30024 "Caroline" exploded. 23 members of the 533rd BS and one civilian were killed. Buried in the Brookwood Cemetery. Reinterred in an unknown cemetery in Dover, NJ.
Wharton, NJ
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17051231
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31172623
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35387142
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34361347
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Armorer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14119651
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Crew chief/Electrician
Aircraft
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Pennsylvania, USA | 23 December 1917 | |
Enlisted |
Newark, NJ | 15 September 1942 | |
Based |
Ridgewell | 5 June 1943 - 23 June 1943 | |
Other Killed in Service |
Ridgewell, England - Station 167 | 23 June 1943 | Caroline explosion |
Buried |
Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial | 26 June 1943 | |
Buried |
Dover, New Jersey, USA | St Mary's |
Revisions
Updated burial location and cemetery.
381st Bomb Group at Ridgewell in WW2 Facebook page. Researched by Don Madar. Application for Headstone or Marker document.
All entries from ARowe95 are from:
381st BGMA
533rd Bomb Squadron War Diary
242nd Medical Detachment Diary
Fold.3
NARA Enlistment records
They Came from Over the Pond - David Osborne
The Mighty Men of the 381st - James Good Brown
Triumphant We Fly - Ken Stone
81st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999,oll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 160, NARA / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia