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Personal info

Full name
WOMER, William S Jr
Date of birth
22 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio
Hometown
Coshocton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15074670
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
Unit
579th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster,
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

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 26 20

Immediate family

Members
William S. Womer (father)
Delores G. Steiner (mother)
Juanita Womer (sister)
Lucille (Davis) Womer (sister)
Charles Womer (brother)
Harold Womer (brother)

Plane data

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

More information

S/Sgt William S. Womer, Jr. attended Coshocton worked for the Pope-Gosser plant.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of th United States on 24 January 1942 at Fort Hayes, Ohio.

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.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.B24.net, www.wwiimemorial.com,
www.archives.gov, Repository, Canton, Ohio November 19, 1944, The Coshocton Tribune (Ohio) 10-nov-1944

Photo source: Mireille Goedhart, 392nd Bomb Group, The Coshocton Tribune - 10 November 1944