MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: On the 24 August 1944, the B-17 "GRAHAM CRACKER", S/N 43-37593, left for a bombing mission of oil plants in Merseberg, GER. OWEN LEE GRAHAM was the pilot, HOWARD B. PARKER was the bombardier. As the plane was headed back, it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Due to the heavy damage to "Graham Cracker," it crashed in Barnstaedt (west of Meresburg) at 12:30. Seven of the crew members were found dead, two had parachuted out before the crash (they were captured by the Germans). The seven dead crew members were buried on 25 August, 1944, in the Village Cemetery, at Barnstaedt. In 1945, the bodies were disinterred and reinterred, in the U.S. Military Cemetery, at Margraten, Holland.
MISSION LOSS CIRCUMSTANCES: On the 24 August 1944, the B-17 "GRAHAM CRACKER", S/N 43-37593, left for a bombing mission of oil plants in Merseberg, GER. OWEN LEE GRAHAM was the pilot, HOWARD B. PARKER was the bombardier. As the plane was headed back, it was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Due to the heavy damage to "Graham Cracker," it crashed in Barnstaedt (west of Meresburg) at 12:30. Seven of the crew members were found dead, two had parachuted out before the crash (they were captured by the Germans). The seven dead crew members were buried on 25 August, 1944, in the Village Cemetery, at Barnstaedt. In 1945, the bodies were disinterred and reinterred, in the U.S. Military Cemetery, at Margraten, Holland.
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