Michael Uhrin
Military ROLL OF HONOUR10-Aug-43 crash landed in 'Liberty Belle' B17#42-5889 on return from mission to Poland. Returned to Duty (RTD)
Killed in Action (KIA). Shot down 14-Oct-43 in B17 42-30707 'Piccadilly Commando' on Schweinfurt mission. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM, PH.
KIA when the plane crashed and blew up, 2 KM west of Langenbergheim GE. Buried the following day in the Langenbergheim cemetery the following day and identified as Unknown X-1660.
Disenterred on or about FEC 1946 and reinterred at St. Avold on 22 Feb1946
Noted in the X-1660 file on 20 April 1956 that it was considered "most favorable" as being SSG Uhrin, "but not considered conclusive".
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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
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Manhattan, New York | 18 December 1921 - 14 October 1943 | Born Manhattan, New York |
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Died |
Langenbergheim, Germany | 14 October 1943 | Killed in Action (KIA) Langenbergheim, Germany |
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Buried |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, England | 15 October 1943 - 22 October 1946 | Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Germany | 14 October 1943 |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 816 / MACR 816, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop and Hey pp. 320, 334, / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database