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Full name
WASSERSTEIN, Hyman "Hymie"

Date of birth
30 March 1921

Age
22

Place of birth
The Bronx, Bronx County, New York

Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
O-676188

Rank
Second Lieutenant

Function
Navigator

Unit
579th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy

Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Finding of Death

Date of death
4 October 1943

Place of death
North Sea, north of the Frisian Islands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten

Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Louis Wasserstein (father)
Anna (Kirstein) Wasserstein (mother)
Dorothy Wasserstein (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-7474

Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: Satan's Flame
Destination: North Sea
Mission: Diversion
MACR: 891

More information

2nd Lt Wasserstein graduated from Jamaica High School in 1939. He loved the outdoors and therefore attended the University of Michigan to study forestry.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in New York, New York, on 17 March 1942 and earned his navigator wings in Hondo, Texas in 1943.

The mission's objective was to deconcentrate German defenses, primarily fighter units, and draw them away from the main bomber routes across the continent.

This aircraft was last seen when it lost altitude with one or more engines on fire as a result of fighter attacks. Three or four parachutes were noted at that time.

The entire crew of ten men was killed.