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SEYFRIED, Francis Joseph - Date of
birth
22 November 1921 -
Age
23 - Place of
birth
Ridgewood, Queens County, New York -
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
12122700 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
Tail Gunner -
Unit
350th Bombardment Squadron,
100th Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
31 December 1944 - Place of
death
Horumersiel, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
John J. Seyfried (father)
Mary T. (Mueller) Seyfried (mother)
John G. Seyfried (brother)
Charles A. Seyfried (brother)
Marie R. Seyfried (sister)
George J. Seyfried (brother)
Philip Seyfried (brother)
Joseph Seyfried (brother)
Plane data
- Serial
number
43-38457 -
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Nine Lives
Destination: Hamburg Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Rheunania Ossag oil refinery
MACR: 11359
More information
S/Sgt Francis Seyfried was a clerk. He was involved in sports as a member of the Queens Baseball and Football alliances, as well as a Golden Gloves boxer known as Frank "K.O." Seyfried.He joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in New York City, New York on 5 October 1942.
S/Sgt Seyfried was one of five brothers who served in WWII.
The airplane pancaked together with another B-17 (42-31987). They circled and crash landed still attached to each other. There was no fire from the planes with in the air or on the ground although there was some smoke.
Four crew members were taken prisoner, five were killed. According to statements of surviving crew men after the war, their comrades all bailed out but it is supposed they all landed in the water.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Kathy Seyfried (niece), www.ancestry.com - Alligood/Lyden/Lechner/Robley Family Tree, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.8thafhs.com
Photo source: Michel Beckers, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / Kathy Seyfried (niece), www.100thbg.com, Arie-Jan van Hees, Pilot Class Book 44-C, Hicks Field, Fort Worth, Texas