Richard Ernest Diete
Military ROLL OF HONOUR42-31123
BACK ROW
S/Sgt Gordon V.Sorensen (radio), Sgt Julius W.Torok (right waist gunner),
Sgt Charles E. Phinney (ball turret),Sgt Louis M. Mirabel (left waist gunner),
Sgt Aloysious L. Godek, S/Sgt Agnew R. Eckert
FRONT ROW
2nd Lt Kenneth B. Rongstadt (pilot), 2nd Lt Strawn (co-pilot),
2nd Lt Richard E. Diete (navigator), 2nd Lt Joseph M. Spicer (bombardier)
NOTE
This aircraft crashed shortly after take off from Horham, at Green Farm, Redlingfield
on November 19th 1943. S/Sgt Kenneth Cosby and S/Sgt Gail A. Richmond
were both killed in the crash, but are not in the photo.
S/Sgt Eckert and Sgt Godek were not in the crew at the time of the crash
associate place
* 20 October 1943 : B17#42-30114 ditched in North Sea. All returned.
* 19 November 1943 : B17#42-31123 took off on mission to Germany. When it failed to gain flying speed and was banking to turn, it stalled and crashed at Redlingfield, Suffolk. All 10 men on board killed.
Full details on the crash and crew at
http://redlingfield.onesuffolk.net/home/local-history/the-second-world-…
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35473758
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32440133
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32291509
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13131817
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19056054 and O-675123
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 19 November 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Chicago, IL, USA | 27 October 1920 | |
Enlisted |
Chicago, Illinois, United States | 6 March 1942 | Enlisted as a Private in the Air Corps |
Died |
Redlingfield, Eye, Suffolk IP23, UK | 19 November 1943 | |
Buried |
Rock Island, IL, USA | 22 July 1948 | Rock Island National Cemetery Rock Island Rock Island County Illinois, USA Plot: D, 40 |
Revisions
Find A Grave Memorial# 2886617
http://www.usaafdata.com/
ancestry.com
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey pp. 377, 347