Ralph W Von Bergen
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Kneeling: Burton Wheeler - CP, Ralph Dooley - P, John Kowalczuk - B, Paul Gorman - N
Object Number - UPL 14500 - The Dooley Crew: Standing: Oscar Nelson - WG, Paul Wadsworth - RO, Don Quirk - WG, Ralph VonBergen - TG, Johnie Jones - TT/E, John Phillips - NTG...
DNB. A/C B-24 (H) 42-95133 returning from a Practice Mission and in the process of making an instrument landing approach to AAF Station 123. The A/C hit the steeple of St. Phillips Church on Hamm Road, damaging the right wing and right tail assembly and continued 1000 yards, apparently in normal flight at which time the right wing dropped and the ship crashed and burned.
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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
- Nicknames: Lady Jane
- Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Memorial
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Died |
Heigham Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 4LG, UK | 24 November 1944 | |
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Born |
CO | ||
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Buried |
Plot D Row 2 Grave 52 |
Revisions
American Battle Monuments Commission
http://www.458bg.com/crewba80dooley.htm
Combat Supplement, 458th Website & Page 283 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 & DNB on practice mission / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
