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Walter A. Rosenberger was a salesman before he joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Miami Beach, Florida on 18 February 1943.

The airplane was hit by flak on the right wing, reported to have been a ground rocket, just after bombs away. Starboard engines began to flame and the plane was nosed over in a steep dive apparently in an effort to extinguish the fire. A few seconds later, it pulled up in a half roll, then did a split S and went down. Two parachutes were seen as it fell away in a tight spin. When last seen the plane was nearly enveloped in fire.

Seven crew members were killed. They were initially buried at the POW Cemetery of Dallgow-Döbertiz, near Berlin. Only two men bailed out and became POW. They survived the war.

On one picture Aviation Cadet Walter A. Rosenberger poses in the middle, just before graduation at the Frederick Army Air Field in Oklahoma. Left of him Aviation Cadet Frederick W. Weiss and on the right Aviation Cadet James A. Scheib.