Frederick Byrd Ostler

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-50236.jpeg UPL 50236 Frederick Byrd Ostler
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Family collection

Object Number - UPL 50236 - Frederick Byrd Ostler Date unknown

Assigned to 850BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF. Davis crew. Local flights 18-Aug-44 in 43-38072; port U/C collapsed on third landing, RTD. 5 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Ludwigshaven in B-17 43-38009, crashed at Hochheim on 13-Sep-44, Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 8855



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-757610
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 850th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 13 September 1944
  • Official Description:

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Lovell, Bighorn, WY 20 January 1924 Son of Willard Howarth and Ethel Marguerite [Byrd] Ostler.

Enlisted

Lincoln, NE 2 March 1943 Lincoln, Nebraska

Died

Hochheim, Germany 13 September 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Ludwigshaven in B-17 43-38009, crashed at Hochheim on 13-Sep-44, KIA MACR 8855

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Eye 13 September 1944 Assigned to 850BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Re-Interred Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial St Avold, France Plot K Row 36 Grave 32
Idaho Entered service from Idaho.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8855 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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