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Personal info

Full name
LAMBERT, Raymond P
Date of birth
18 June 1919
Age
24
Place of birth
Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire
Hometown
Grafton County, New Hampshire

Military service

Service number
O-530081
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
577th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 January 1944
Place of death
North Sea, off the coast of Langeness, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 10 47

Immediate family

Members
Napoleon Lambert (father)
Marie E. (Yelle) Lambert) mother)
Harry J. Lambert (brother)
Rita R. Lambert (sister)
Stanley T. Lambert (brother)
Shirley M. Lambert (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-7482
Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: Shack Rat
Destination: Kiel, Germany
MACR: 1908

More information

No specific 392nd crew eye-witness account is detailed concerning the loss of this aircrew and plane. A German report, #KU623 of the mission date, 4 January, notes that this particular ship was found crashed in the North Sea at 1300 hours just off the small island of Langeness after having exploded in the air. Five dead crew members were located in this wreckage and the probable cause of the shoot-down was fighter aircraft. No other account exists on further circumstances of the crew's loss.

The body of the Pilot, Lt Raymond P. Lambert washed ashore on 7 January 1944 near land identified as Hallig Hooge. He was interred the next day, 8 January, in the Old Churchyard Cemetery of Pellworm in Grave #58.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.B24.net, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees, New Hampshire Birth Index

Photo source: www.findagrave.com