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Personal info

Full name
FOX, Daniel Chester
Date of birth
7 January 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Grady County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
18130587
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
524th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 August 1943
Place of death
Near Lindlar, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 42 55

Immediate family

Members
Elex S. Fox (father)
Ethel Fox (mother)
Vernon Fox (brother)
Iris Fox (sister)
Lloyd Fox (brother)
Evelyn Fox (sister)
Imogene Fox (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-3199
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Calamity Jane
Destination: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Mission: Bombing of synthetic oil installations
MACR: 905

More information

T/Sgt Daniel C. Fox graduated from Pocasset High School in 1941.

After having dropped its load of bombs on Gelsenkirchen and got through exceptionally heavy flak over the target area, the plane was heavily attacked by enemy fighters. It crashed in a field on a hillside outside the little town of Lindlar. Some records show the plane was shot down by flak.

Six men parachuted to safety, five men were killed.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, www.fold3.com, WWII Draft Card, 1930 US Census

Photo source: Jac Engels, The Chickasha Star - 22 April 1943, Pocasset High School 1941