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FENNER, Marvin F - Date of
birth
1921 -
Age
unknown - Place of
birth
Panama Canal Zone -
Hometown
Gratiot County, Michigan
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
16060081 -
Rank
Technical Sergeant -
Function
Engineer/Top Turret Gunner -
Unit
349th Bombardment Squadron,
100th Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal
Death
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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