Lawrence Berkoff

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

2LT Lawrence Berkoff--on a secret mission to supply the Resistance in Europe in September 1944--sacrificed his life to save his crew and to pilot his stricken B-24 away from an English village.

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Units served with

A Swedish Soldier guards a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40159) nicknamed "Boulder Buff" of the 492nd Bomb Group that has landed in Sweden.

492nd Bomb Group

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

801st Bomb Group

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

Missions

594

  • Date: 31 August 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

Lambourn, Hungerford, West Berkshire RG17, UK 8 September 1944 http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/crashes/b24lambourn.html http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Berkoff/36th-BerkoffCrew.html https://books.google.com/books?id=jLPWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT181&lpg=PT181&dq=lawrence+berkoff&source=bl&ots=4GPpMaiE8m&sig=5Jy5CfTjnv3x26sYROLnjN75Pec&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEsQ6AEwC2oVChMI6fWnnOKDyQIVCe5jCh39_gBp#v=onepage&q=lawrence%20berkoff&f=false

Revisions

Date9 Nov 2015 16:57:37
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Sources

Todd Berkoff ([email protected])

Date9 Nov 2015 16:56:01
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Sources

Todd Berkoff ([email protected])

Date9 Nov 2015 16:54:50
Contributortberkoff
ChangesChanges to suffix, highest rank, biography, awards, events, place associations and mission associations
Sources

Mr. Todd Berkoff, of Ashburn, Virginia, USA, grand-nephew of 2LT Lawrence Berkoff. Todd can be reached at [email protected]

Date27 Sep 2014 18:18:10
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Sources

Combat Chronology / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia