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Personal info

Full name
WYATT, Bert William
Date of birth
1923
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Greene County, Illinois
Hometown
Greene County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-526045
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
579th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 April 1944
Place of death
In a forest on the outskirts of Dinklage, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 40 7

Immediate family

Members
Thomas J. Wyatt (father)
Nora Belle (Reynolds) Wyatt (mother)
Betty J. Wyatt (sister)
Thomas D. Wyatt (brother)
Helen G. (Earle) Wyatt (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-7510
Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: El Lobo
Destination: Berlin, Germany
MACR: 4461

More information

2nd Lt Bert W. Wyatt graduated from Greenfield Community High School in 1941.

He joined the Regular Army Air Corps in October 1941 and was sent overseas in January 1944.

No report exists in the MACR from in-flight eyewitness accounts on the loss of this aircraft. Other records indicated this aircrew did fly this mission with formations of the 392nd's sister group, the 44th, to the Berlin target complex. German eyewitnesses report hearing the sound of gunfire in the clouds and then seeing this B-24 descend through the clouds. Neither right engine was working and thick black smoke was coming from the forward part of the fuselage. The plane impacted in a forest on the outskirts of Dinklage, Germany.

Lt Wyatt were buried in the Forest Cemetery in Vechta, Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, www.b24.net, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Michel Beckers/392nd Bomb Group, www.findagrave.com - b24.net / John Dowdy, Georgia Aero Tech Yearbook