Douglas Nastrom Franke
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Douglas N Franke served as a navigator with the 392nd Bomb Group. He was shot down on mission to Berlin on 29 April 1944 in B-24 #427510 'El Lobo'. The aircraft crashed into a wooded area outside of Dinklage, Germany. All of the crew were Killed in Action (KIA).
AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
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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-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: El Lobo
- Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 579th Bomb Squadron 2101st Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Anoka, MN, USA | 1 February 1923 | |
Died |
Dinklage, Germany | 29 April 1944 | Plane crashed in wooded area near Dinklage, Germany whilst on the way back from a mission to Berlin. Crew Killed In Action (KIA). |
Buried |
Minneapolis, MN, USA | Hillside Cemetery |
Revisions
Brought in information from duplicate record. Sources:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4461, ABMC / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Also correspondence with Douglas N Franke's great-nephew, Dan.
See also: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=franke&GSfn=dougl…;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.b-24.net/aircrew/fnames.html">http://www.b-24.net/aircrew/fnames.html>; MACR 4461; Losses of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces