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Personal info

Full name
TUFTS, Aubert Mahlon
Date of birth
25 August 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
unknown
Hometown
Piscataquis County, Maine

Military service

Service number
O-755611
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
579th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

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
D 11 15

Immediate family

Members
Myron G. Tufts (father)
Mae R. Tufts (mother)
Myron G. Tufts (brother)
Anna K. (Gott) Tufts (wife)

Plane data

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

More information

Aubert Tufts enlisted in the Air Corps on 20 June 1942 in Charleston, West Virginia.

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 worling 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.

2nd Lt Tufts was initially buried in the Forest Cemetery in Vechta, Germany.

He is remebered at Pine Tree Cemetery in Brownsville, Maine.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.B24.net, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census / West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, Tufts Geneaology

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, 392nd Bomb Group, www.findagrave.com - b24.net / John Dowdy