Saul Suskind
Military ROLL OF HONOURUploaded
Shot down 27 January 1943 in B-24D 41-23690. while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner Killed in Action (KIA). MACR and Losses report a collision with an enemy aircraft FW 190 (yellow 3 serial 5604) of JG/1 3 Staffel piloted by Fw Fritz Koch. Both planes crashed into the Waddenzee near Harlingen, Holland.
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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
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 27 January 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
New York City, New York | ||
Buried |
Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands, M 22 6 | Buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Plot M, Row 22, Grave 6. | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Waddenzee | 27 January 1943 | Killed when aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with and FW-190 and crashed into the Waddenzee, Holland. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 15-Feb-2015. Added SN and KIA event per MACR 15637; Added Burial Event and decorations per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; made connection to Place and Mission within existing website data; Added crew position to Biography and other details per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15637 / MACR 15637, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 p. 68 by Bishop and Hey , 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Lundy pp. 41-42 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database