Howard G Goodner

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-14520.jpeg UPL 14520 TSGT Howard G. Goodner
Radio Operator - Crew #769/487
Richard Farrington Crew
KIA - 21 April 1945

466th BG Archives

Object Number - UPL 14520 - TSGT Howard G. Goodner Radio Operator - Crew #769/487 Richard Farrington Crew KIA - 21 April 1945

Flew B-24 'The Black Cat. ' Killed in Action (KIA) crashed at Regensburg. He had no parachute and came down in a free fall alongside bombs and oxygen tanks, spinning toward the Bavarian village of Scharmassing. He landed in a field outside town, his body striking the earth so hard that it left a crater nearly six inches deep. Maria Wittig, then 19, saw him there. He was athletic looking, fair-skinned, handsome. Long fingers. 60 years after the crash, in Vienna, Austria was immortalized on a US postage stamp.

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Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-713376
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Black Cat
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
  • Site type: Aircraft crash site
  • Known as: Black Cat Memorial

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Fort Oglethorpe, GA, USA 18 March 1943

Born

Etowah, TN 37331, USA 2 March 1944

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Scharmassing, 93083 Obertraubling, Germany 21 April 1945
Bowling Green, KY, USA Western Kentucky Univ.

Buried

Cleveland, TN, USA Hilcrest Memorial Gardens Cleveland Bradley County Tennessee, USA

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8th AF News, March 2001 MACR 14182 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 14182 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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