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Personal info

Full name
FENNER, Marvin F
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Panama Canal Zone
Hometown
Gratiot County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
16060081
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
Unit
349th Bombardment Squadron,
100th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
12 June 1944
Place of death
North Sea, 9 miles off Dunkerque, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Floyd H. Fenner (father)
Ada M. Fenner (mother)
Neil E. Fenner (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
43-37601
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Rosières-en-Santerre, France
Mission: Bombing of the airfield
MACR: 5625

More information

T/Sgt Marvin F. Fenner attended Alma College. He joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Grands Rapids, Michigan on 12 June 1942.

The crew was on their first mission.

The aircraft was hit by flak over Dunkerque at 08.53 hours at 24,000 feet. The #4 engine caught fire and the right wing broke off near the the #4 engine inducing a spin. Five or six parachutes may have come from this aircraft.

The only survivor, George L. Sherback had no recollection of leaving the plane and believed he must have been blown clear. A German officer told him the plane exploded and the remains of the other crew members went into the sea.

T/Sgt Marvin F. Fenner is remembered with a memorial marker at Riverside Cemetery in Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.100thbg.com, National WWIImemorial, Footnote - MACR

Photo source: FOHF, www.findagrave.com, Alma College 1942