Sydney Berk
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 41-24489 'Terry and the Pirates' while serving as Navigator. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Terry and the Pirates
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Paris, France | 20 December 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters and crashed near Paris, France |
Buried |
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) does not have a record of this airman as being buried in any American Cemetery in Europe nor is he listed on any Wall of the Missing. However, the other KIAs in this crew are in the Epinal American Cemetery. There are two possibilities: either his remains were never recovered from the crashed aircraft; OR his remains were at one time at Epinal and were repatriated after the war to the United States. |
Revisions
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added crew position to description and KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added Burial event data based on my own research; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55