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Personal info

Full name
SANFORD, Frederick Kenneth
Date of birth
15 September 1915
Age
28
Place of birth
Indiana
Hometown
Liberty, Union County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
O-692079
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Navigator
Unit
735th Bombardment Squadron,
453rd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
8 April 1944
Place of death
Salzwedel, 10 miles east of Henningen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Roscoe C. Sanford (father)
Eleanor (Nickels) Sanford (mother)
Edna M. Sanford (sister)
Morris M. Sanford (brother)
Gilbert E. Sanford (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-64453
Data
Type: B-24H
Destination: Brunswick, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the MIAG aviation industry
MACR: 3922

More information

2nd Lt frederick Sanford was a clerk.

He joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 30 July 1941.

The airplane was attacked by enemy aircraft. The tail split off, close to the wing and the plane began to spin.

One crew member survived and was taken prisoner. The other nine crew members were killed and were initially buried at the cemetery of Henningen. After the war, when a grave registration unit tried to recover the remains at this cemetery, of those nine, the remains of two men were never found.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.8thafhs.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Palladium-Item, Richmond, Indiana. Sunday, December 10, 1944, Page 11, Arie-Jan van Hees, Pilot Class Book 43-E, Stamford Flying School, Arledge, Texas