Richard H Engler

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

FOD near Zeitz in B-17 'Homing Pigeon' #446104. The Finding of Death was given in 1945, a year and a day after the crash Finally in April of 1946 a report from German records shows Engler was dead at the scene of the crash and was buried in a local cemetery at We

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

44-6104

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Homing Pigeon
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Died

21 November 1944

Born

Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 21 November 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10411 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database