Barney LIHN

 

LIHN Barney
NUMBER OF SERVICEO-418221
AGE34 yo
DATE OF BIRTH9 september 1910
ETATVineland, NEW JERSEY
FAMILYSon of Abraham LIHN
RANKMajor
FONCTION

Observer

Group surgeon

JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT-NJ
DATE of ENLISTEMENT-
  SQUADRON49th Troop Carrier Squadron
  GROUP313rd Troop Carrier Group
ARMYIX Troop Command
DATE OF DEATH7 june 1944LIHN Barney tombe
STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATH

Flooded area - Near the railway and the Douve

Carentan

LIHN Barney crasch

Crash Information - Dday-overlord.com

DATA PLAN

Douglas C-47 - type A-90-DL - s/n 43-15637

Macr: 6013
Mission: Neptune #2 (Freeport 39) 

DZ-O refueling chute (N de Picauville)

Takeoff 03:10 Station 484 Folkingham, LINCOLNSHIRE Injured Crew

Leaves the formation over England, due to bad weather conditions

Hit by the flak

Altitude too low for the crew to jump - crash around 4:20

CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
C1243
DECORATION

 Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal

Photo FDLM

victory medal

 

usaf 9af troopcarriercommand badge
STORY
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Douglas C-47 - type A-90-DL - s/n 43-15637

Capitaine Claude J WILSON Pilot Prisoner  
O-729284 - Son of Ward H Wilson, Oakland, CALIFORNIA - Injured - Captured, hospitalized in the field, then released 1 1/2 day later by Allied troops
2nd Lieutenant Evert B REED Co Pilot Prisoner Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang  O-759079 - OREGON - wounded
2nd Lieutenant John E "Zeke" BAGLEY Navigator Dead First United Methodist Church Cem. Cottondale, Florida  O-804575 - Né en 1923 - Cottondale, FLORIDA 
S/Sergeant Harry G OSSMAN Crew Prisoner Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow  12057808 - Garnerville, NEW YORK 
S/Sergeant Daniel M JENNINGS Radio Dead Fair View Cem. Roanoke, Virginia  33092831 - Son of Myrtle F Jennings, Roanoke, VIRGINIA 
Major Barney LIHN

Observator


Gpe surgeon

Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer 
O-418221 - PH - Son of Abraham Lihn, Vineland, NEW JERSEY  - 
S/Sergeant Jerome M FINNEGAN

Prisoner Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow

 37340949 - 490e QDCo 

Son of  Elizabeth Finnegan, Denver, COLORADO

42 100646 plane

SOURCE INFORMATION & PHOTOFrancecrashes39-45.net - Findagrave.com - Airbornetroopcarrier.com - Normandy.whitebeamimages.ie
PROGRAMMERFrédéric & Renaud
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