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PUTZEL, Sterling August - Date of
birth
1 December 1919 -
Age
24 - Place of
birth
New Haven County, Connecticut -
Hometown
Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
11066016 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
Right Waist Gunner -
Unit
429th Bombardment Squadron,
2nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
4 October 1944 - Place of
death
Giesing, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Daniel J. Putzel (father)
Marie A. (Schaefer) Putzel (mother)
Daniel Putzel (brother)
Plane data
- Serial
number
44-8043 -
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Munich, Germany
Mission: Bombing od the marshalling yards
MACR: 8949
More information
S/Sgt Sterling A. Putzel attended college and was a draftman before he volunteered for the US Army in Hartford, Connecticut on 10 April 1942.1st Lt Robert J. Foxen:
B-17 No.043 hit by flak just before bombs away. No.043 was hit on the left wing, wing tip and aerilon was blown off, he stood up on the left wing and almost turned completely over then fell off into a slow vertical spin. This was at 1217 hours, at approximately 29,000 feet.
He did not have time to bail out. His remains were never recovered.
He is remembered at the Beaverdale Memorial Park in New Haven, New Hanven County, Connecticut.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.fold3.com, www.findagrave.com – Rob Johnson
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Rob Johnson, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Hamden High School