Victor Herman Prendinger Jr
Military
Top row, left to right: Alfred Rabo (Pilot), Fred Gilbert (Co-Pilot), Victor Prendinger (Navigator), Mike Berkowitz (Bombardier, with dig), William A Jones (Tail Gunner)
Bottom row, left to right; Edmund Gates (Flight Engineer), Charles Peterson (Ball Turret Gunner), "Johnson" (Waist Gunner), Thomas Kon (Radio Operator), Henry Kwaseske (Waist Gunner)
Photograph taken from Fold3, as well as crew positions in photo
Object Number - UPL 52150 - Lt. Alfred Rabo's crew, 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. Taken 23 November, 1942, in front of B-17 41-24615 "Target For Tonite". Top row,...
Arrived with the first groups from the 305th. Flew 25 missions over Germany (lead plane on 7 missions). Cpt. Prendinger went on to serve with the 20th Air Force in the Pacific, mapping routes for B-29s to Japan, and flying in a mission to Nagasaki. Credited (2) Probables.
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, AP, EAME (2 x Battle Stars).
Connections
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16022486 / O-726112
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18053866
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Air Transport Command 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron 812th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13038122
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator, Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33076876
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner / Ball Turret Gunner
Aircraft
![Ground crew work of the 305th Bomb Group work on the engines of a B-17 Flying Fortress, nicknamed "Target for Tonite". Handwritten caption on reverse: '30/6/43. 305[BG].'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-407692.jpg.webp?itok=Vkvl3p1l)
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | 1 May 1919 | Son of Victor Herman Prendinger Sr. |
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Enlisted |
New York City, New York, USA | 19 December 1941 | Enlisted as an Aviation Cadet with the serial number 12046208 |
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Died |
Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA | 3 January 2009 | |
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Buried |
Brigadier General William C Doyle Memorial Cemetery, NJ | 7 January 2009 | Brigadier General William C Doyle Memorial Cemetery, New Jersey |
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Based |
Chelveston | Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Ancestry.com records
Legacy.com obituary
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mycentraljersey/name/victor-prendi…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self
