Adriel Wayne Langendoerfer
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Joseph W Jennings Military Papers - 1943-1945
Object Number - UPL 31940 - T. Sgt. Adriel Wayne Langendoerfer
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USSAF. John Daly crew.
Failed to Return (FTR) in B-17 #42-31083. A/C exploded in mid-air near Downham Market, England Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM, PH.
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: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-805776
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-694353
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35579373
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-755018
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator / Bombardier Instructor
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15103734 / O-692968
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 94th Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tenny Belle
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sara Jane
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: The Lost Angel
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron 525th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 11 April 1944
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 9 April 1944
- Date: 28 March 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
Places
Official War Department document/Open Source.
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rattlesnake Bomber Base
- Site type: Military site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Osage, MO | 1 January 1923 | Son of Adriel and Nelly [Smith] Langendoerfer. |
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Enlisted |
Jefferson Barracks, MO | 27 December 1942 | Jefferson Barracks, Missouri |
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Based |
Pyote Army Airfield | 23 September 1943 - 8 December 1943 | B-17 Flying Fortress crew training |
|
Based |
Kimbolton | 20 February 1944 - 11 April 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USSAF. |
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Died |
Barroway Drove, Downham Market PE38 0AJ, UK | 11 April 1944 | |
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Buried |
12 April 1944 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery | |
|
Based |
Snettisham | 19 February 1944 | Intensive gunnery training |
|
Buried |
New Haven CemeteryNew Haven,Franklin County, MO | Re-Interred New Haven Cemetery New Haven, Franklin County, Missouri |
Revisions
On Friday July 2, 1948, the Daily Capital News of Jefferson City Missouri, ran a story about the USS Lawrence Victory ship, which "was returning the bodies of 5,374...Americans who lost their lives in Europe during World War II. Included in the number...from this area" was Technical Sergeant Adriel W. Langendoerfer. The article mentioned his training as a Radio Officer.
[Betz, Frank L. and Kenneth H. Cassens editors]. 379th Bombardment Group (H) Anthology, Volume One: November 1942-July 1945. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 2000, p. 302
Combat Chronology; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 302 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
