Dana Mack Lenkeit

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-52603.jpeg UPL 52603 2nd Lt Dana Mack Lenkeit. 401BG.

USAAF photo.

Object Number - UPL 52603 - 2nd Lt Dana Mack Lenkeit. 401BG.

Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. 4 x combat missions with 401BG. Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin in B-17 42-30855 'Ol' Massa' 8-May-44; shot down. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4586



Dana M Lenkeit may also have served with the 750th Bomb Squadron of the 457th Bomb Group.



Awards: PH.

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

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13057360
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-749419
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14058737
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32506396
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18108415 / O-746994
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Aircraft

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

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dothan, AL 8 September 1917 NoK: Mary E Lenkeit.

Enlisted

Atlanta, GA 2 June 1942 Atlanta, Georgia

Died

Balkum, Germany 8 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Berlin in B-17 42-30855 'Ol' Massa' 8-May-44; shot down. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4586

Buried

Marietta National Cemetery Marietta, Cobb County, GA 4 August 1949 Marietta National Cemetery Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Deenethorpe 8 May 1944 Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Draft registration

Atlanta, GA Employed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Flak Dodger by Roland Byers:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VoXxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Flak+Dodger+by+Rola…

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4586 / MACR 4586, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3417 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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