Howard G Goodner
Military ROLL OF HONOURRadio Operator - Crew #769/487
Richard Farrington Crew
KIA - 21 April 1945
466th BG Archives
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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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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
- Date: 21 April 1945
Places
- 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 |
Revisions
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