Missing In Action ( MIA)

 
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177 airmen of the 95th Bomb Group (H) who were declared Missing in Action (MIA) during the war are now considered Killed in Action (KIA) by the U.S. government.. Though their remains were never recovered, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) maintains cemeteries throughout the world to honor the missing. We list them here, as well as on our Killed in Action and Overseas Burials pages.

 

P–Pilot; CP–Co-Pilot; N–Navigator; B–Bombardier; RO–Radio Operator; TT–Top Turret; BT–Ball Turret Gunner;
RW–Right Waist Gunner; LW–Left Waist Gunner; TG–Tail Gunner;AVI–Airborne Voice Interpreter; O–Observer

More information can be found on our Searchable Database.

1943

WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY
6/11/43 Malcolm B. MacKinnon P
6/11/43 Richard C. Miller N
6/11/43 Eugene W. Wood CP
6/11/43 Windell D. Neely B
6/11/43 George Babich TT
6/11/43 John J. Vail RO
6/11/43 Richard Cavanaugh BT
6/11/43 John F. Davoren WG
6/11/43 Alexander A. Mareck WG
6/11/43 Stanley Bennett TG

KIEL, GERMANY
6/13/43 Robert L. McNutt, Jr. B
6/13/43 Walter P. Drotleff TT
6/13/43 Charles J. Benson BT
6/13/43 Angelo Triches, Jr. WG
6/13/43 Simon E. Alojado WG
6/13/43 Lester Conklin WG
6/13/43 Robert M. Jennings, Jr. TG

6/13/43 John J. Timko RO
6/13/43 Frederick C. Gay, Jr. BT
6/13/43 Raymond L. Brown WG
6/13/43 Kenneth C. Chambers WG
6/13/43 Roderick W. Hale TG

6/13/43 Burrill Cummings TT
6/13/43 Stephen Drost BT
6/13/43 Floyd C. Hoover TG

6/13/43 Charles Rubin P
6/13/43 Frank A. Schwagel WG

6/13/43 R.D. Cloar TT
6/13/43 Clayton E. Broch BT
6/13/43 Howard Buller WG
6/13/43 John A. Richardson WG
6/13/43 Charles S. Bruce TG

6/13/43 Joseph L. Nunes P
6/13/43 Lawrence Finch, Jr. N
6/13/43 Robert F. Francis B
6/13/43 Austin B. Scott BT
6/13/43 Robert W. Hardy WG
6/13/43 Ivan A. Clinton WG
6/13/43 Grady V. Kearsey TG

6/13/43 Harley H. Riley, Jr. B
6/13/43 Joseph L. La Sarge, Sr. RO
6/13/43 Albert J. Poley BT
6/13/43 William G. Guse WG
6/13/43 Chester L. Piatkowski WG
6/13/43 Cicero J. McNeeley TG

HANNOVER, GERMANY
7/26/43 Stanley Foutz P
7/26/43 James M. Dodson N
7/26/43 David E. Bail, Jr. B
7/26/43 Richard R. Sandberg RO
7/26/43 Vollie B. Dickey TT
7/26/43 Frederick J. Zapatka BT
7/26/43 Marthal N. Franklin WG
7/26/43 Donald E. Mock WG
7/26/43 Ivan C. Lewis TG

OSCHERSLEBEN, GERMANY
7/28/43 Francis J. Regan P
7/28/43 Warren W. Guenther B
7/28/43 Alonzo G. Paul RO
7/28/43 George D. Starkebaum TT
7/28/43 William F. Brunson BT
7/28/43 Harold B. Lofton WG
7/28/43 Samuel F. Wilderson WG
7/28/43 Merle G. Fear TG

7/28/43 Fred D. Hodges P
7/28/43 James W. Peacock, Jr. CP
7/28/43 William H. Grody N
7/28/43 Eleazar L. Moody B
7/28/43 Robert T. Shafer RO
7/28/43 William R. Brown TT
7/28/43 Lloyd R. Brooks BT
7/28/43 Lawrence C. Burleigh WG
7/28/43 Richard E. Porter WG
7/28/43 Ernest E. Weaver TG

KASSEL, GERMANY
7/30/43 Harold W. Jordan TG

STUTTGART, GERMANY
9/6/43 Charles B. Peacock RO

PARIS (BILLENCOURT) FRANCE
9/15/43 David F. Prees CP
9/15/43 Frank A. Roth N
9/15/43 Rex A. Rice B
9/15/43 Edgar A Lajoie RO
9/15/43 Billie E. Clapper TT
9/15/43 Robert H. Willis BT
9/15/43 William L. Cochran WG
9/15/43 Daniel J. Fabritz WG
9/15/43 Raymond L. Provost TG

MARIENBURG, GERMANY
10/9/43 Ralph W. Eherts P
10/9/43 John C. Burdick CP
10/9/43 John G. Nelson
10/9/43 Robert D. Wing B
10/9/43 William E. Pilispanen RO
10/9/43 Grant E. Allen TT
10/9/43 Ralph T. Bates BT
10/9/43 Walter H. Queen WG
10/9/43 Lewis Rabinowitz WG
10/9/43 James R. Anderson TG

EMDEN, GERMANY
12/11/43 J.D. Moore P
12/11/43 Malcolm O. Healey CP
12/11/43 Howard R. Stanbery N
12/11/43 Leonard W. Eaton B
12/11/43 Frank J. Abbadessa RO
12/11/43 Harold E. Sparks TT
12/11/43 Donald L. Rybolt BT
12/11/43 Robert J. Byard WG
12/11/43 Paul H. Clabaugh WG
12/11/43 Marvin B. Ritter TG

BREMEN, GERMANY
12/16/43 Frederick A. Delbern P
12/16/43 Don P. Neff CP
12/16/43 Eugene F. Darter RO

BREMEN (OLDENBURG) GERMANY
12/20/43 Fred Brann TT

1944

HANNOVER, GERMANY
2/21/44 John P. McGuigan P
2/21/44 Thomas P. Barron B
2/21/44 Robert M. Blanchard TT
2/21/44 Lester W. McClellan BT
2/21/44 Howard L. Griffin WG
2/21/44 Charlie H. Flowers TG

ROSTOCK, GERMANY
4/11/44 Louis J. Brown TT

4/11/44 Eugene Schiappacasse P
4/11/44 Henry S. P. Kress N
4/11/44 Gerald D. Taylor B
4/11/44 Angelo Passero RO
4/11/44 Warren R. Messmer TT
4/11/44 Harvey L. Cartrite BT
4/11/44 Frank J. Saunders WG
4/11/44 Ralph C. Murray WG
4/11/44 Edward L. Phillips TG

4/11/44 Alva C. Powell P
4/11/44 Luther T. Whitten, Jr. CP
4/11/44 James F. Beam N
4/11/44 Alton S. Hill B
4/11/44 Frederick A. Keating RO
4/11/44 Clarence F. Parizek TT
4/11/44 Richard H. Gaulke BT
4/11/44 Rino P. Ricardi WG
4/11/44 Clyde W. Trimbath TG

CHIEVRES (LE CULOT) BELGIUM
6/14/44 Goodwin S. Wells P
6/14/44 Orman W. Young, Jr. CP
6/14/44 William H. Shafer N
6/14/44 Kirby Fuller B
6/14/44 John E. Naylon RO
6/14/44 Burleigh W. Warren TT
6/14/44 Elvis S. Carter BT
6/14/44 Lunsford G. Edwards WG
6/14/44 Walter A. Spears WG
6/14/44 Reuben T. Feiler TG

MISBERG (HANNOVER), GERMANY
6/18/44 Jonathan H. Bullard P
6/18/44 William J. Moore CP
6/18/44 William Holmes N
6/18/44 Darell L. Stevens B
6/18/44 Pierre L. Bordelon RO
6/18/44 Everett M. Casselman TT
6/18/44 Philip M. Reed BT
6/18/44 Lorenzo Jarrett WG
6/18/44 John E. Gioiosa WG
6/18/44 Austin N. Herten, Jr. TG

AHLHORN, GERMANY
8/16/44 Louis J. Price CP

POLITZ, GERMANY
8/25/44 Orlin E. Covel BT
8/25/44 Melvin F. Wilhelm TG
8/25/44 Berton E. Briley Photographer

STUTTGART, GERMANY
12/16/44 Harold C. Coffman P
12/16/44 Thomas J. Reid, Jr. N
12/16/44 Neil E. Vediner B
12/16/44 Dominick J. Lanni RO
12/16/44 Edward W. Gallagher TT
12/16/44 Robert W. Pellow BT
12/16/44 William E. Hooser, Jr. WG
12/16/44 John J. Jones TG

1945

BERLIN, GERMANY
2/3/45 Leroy H. Hansen TT

FRANKFURT, GERMANY
3/9/45 John A. Star RO

UNMA, GERMANY
3/23/45 Clarence J. Burnett RO
3/23/45 William C. Richters WG
3/23/45 Wilfred B. Cullerne TG

UTRECT, THE NETHERLANDS
5/7/45 Gano E. McPherson, Jr. RO
5/7/45 William R. Lankford TG
5/7/45 Gerald Lane AVI
5/7/45 Edward H. Bubolz, Jr. AVI
5/7/45 Joseph P. Repiscak O
5/7/45 George L. Waltari O

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