L H White
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Object Number - UPL 55655 - T/Sgt. L.H. White, 93rd Bomb Group.
Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY 9AF. Crew member of B-24 41-23711 'Jerks Natural', flew on Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43.
'Jerks Natural' was damaged over Austria on mission to Wiener Neustadt Me109 factory and crashed in Yugoslavia on 1-Oct-43. KIA. MACR 3301.
Awards: DFC, AM, PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14062177 / O-?
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-792650
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Jerks Natural
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Carryville, AR | 25 October 1916 | Son of Floyd White. |
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Enlisted |
Fort Custer, MI | 12 February 1942 | Fort Custer, Michigan |
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Other Survived Ploesti |
Ploiești, Romania | 1 August 1943 | Flew on Ploesti raid on 1-Aug-43. |
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Other Killed in action |
Heilbrunn, Austria | 1 October 1943 | 'Jerks Natural' was damaged over Austria on mission to Wiener Neustadt Bf 109 factory and crashed outside Heilbrunn, Austria, near Graz, on 1-Oct-43. KIA. The Missing Air Crew Report erroneously listed the location of the crew's disappearance as Yugoslavia. MACR 3301. |
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Buried |
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay, St. Louis County MO | 13 March 1950 | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay, St. Louis County Missouri, USA. |
| Kennett, Missouri | |||
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Based Assigned |
Benina | 1 October 1943 | Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. TDY 9AF. |
Revisions
This image of T/Sgt. L.H. White, my mother's oldest brother, is from my personal family collection.
I'm the nephew of T/Sgt. L.H. White. I have his U.S. military Deceased Personnel File and other documentation that establishes that L.H. and eight comrades aboard Jerk's Natural (41-23711) died in an attempted landing outside Heilbrunn, Austria, and were buried in the parish cemetery of Heilbrunn. An American Graves Registration Service team exhumed nine sets of remains from the Heilbrunn cemetery on 23 August 1946, and on 9 September 1946 U.S. soldiers removed the remains from Heilbrunn and transported them to France. The remains were temporarily interred as Unknown X-7611 at the U.S. military cemetery at St. Avold, France, pending identification. On 29 September 1949, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps' Memorial Division approved the finding of the American Graves Registration Command that the remains in St. Avold grave Unknown X-7611 were those of the pilot William F. Stein and eight crew members, including L.H. White. On 13 March 1950, the remains of the nine men were interred in a group grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis County, Missouri.
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