Orvest Gordon Ellingson

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Free Access: Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947

UPL 63710 UPL 63710 Initial burial data from German POW records. Remains recovered and removed to Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial
Saint-Avold, Departement de la Moselle, Lorraine, France
Plot E Row 5 Grave 31

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Arolsen Archives, Digital Archive; Bad Arolsen, Germany; Lists of Persecutees 2.1.1.2

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Free Access: Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947
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Ancestry.com
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Arolsen Archives. iRegistration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939-1947)/i. Bad Arolsen, Germany. 2.1.1.1 American Zone; Bavaria Hesse; 2.1.1.2 American Zone: Bavaria, Wurttemberg-Baden, Bremen; 2.1.1.3 American Zone; Bavaria, Hesse (Children); 2.1.2.1 British Zone; 2.1.3.1 French Zone; 2.1.3.2 French Zone: Hospital Files; 2.1.4.1 Soviet Zone; 2.1.4.2 Soviet Zone: Part 2; 2.1.4.3 Soviet Zone: Inpatients in Hospitals; 2.1.4.4 Soviet Zone: Hospital Files; 2.1.5.1 Other Zones: Berlin; 2.1.5.2 Other Zones: Inpatients in Hospitals, Berlin; 2.1.5.3 Other Zones: Hospital Files, Berlin; 2.1.6.1 Other Zones: Austria; 2.1.7.1 Other Zones: Poland; 2.1.7.2 Other Zones: Russia; 2.1.7.3 Other Zones, Czechoslovakia; 2.1.7.4 Other Zones: Yugoslavia; 2.1.7.5 Other Zones: Other Countries; 2.1.8.1 Other Zones, Various Zones; 2.1.8.2 Other Zones, Unknown Zones;.
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Object Number - UPL 63710 - Initial burial data from German POW records. Remains recovered and removed to Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Saint-Avold, Departement de...

2Lt Orvest Gordon Ellingson VVeteran

Birth
10 Feb 1918

Pondera County, Montana, USA

Death
8 Sep 1944 (aged 26)
Burial

Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial

Saint-Avold, Departement de la Moselle, Lorraine, France

Plot E Row 5 Grave 31
Memorial ID56654747 ·2nd Lt. Orvest G. Ellingson of Brady, Montana, A.S. # 0820888 was piloting the B-17G, #231720, "Blue Blazing Blizzard" on a run to Ludwigshafen, Germany September 8, 1944. At approximately 11:53 a.m. shortly after bombs away, she was hit by two flak bursts, the second striking the number 3 engine on the right wing, causing a catastrophic fire. The bailout order was given, but the wing came off, the plane went into a spiral and then exploded at approximately 25,000 feet. Three other crew perished and five were blown clear and were able to deploy their parachutes and were captured. The crash site was indicated as 5 kilometers northwest of Lampertheim/Hessen near Lache. They flew with the 8th Air Force, 379th Heavy Bomb Group, 524th Squadron out of Kimbolton, England. The Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) Number is 8844.

The MACR states those KIA were buried at the Cemetery Lampertheim near Weinheim on Bergstrasse, September 17, 1944. Lt. Ellingson was placed in grave number 13. His next of kin was listed as Edwin O. Ellingson, father.

It appears that his remains were later moved to Plot E, Row 5, Grave 31 at the Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France.