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Personal info

Full name
GLASHOFF, Howard Irving Jr
Date of birth
9 December 1919
Age
24
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Louisa County, Virginia
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
O-926306
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
833rd Bombardment Squadron,
486th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 November 1944
Place of death
Coerde-Münster, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 17 8

Immediate family

Members
Howard I. Glashoff (father)
Ellen Glashoff (mother)
Ruth C. (Lynch) Glashoff (wife)
Howard I. Glashoff III (son)

Plane data

Serial number
43-37646
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Low Pressure LuLu
Destination: Merseburg, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Leuna synthetic oil plant
MACR: 10405

More information

2nd Lt Howard I. Glashoff Jr. was a toolmaker.

He joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Baltimore, Maryland on 11 November 1942.

The airplane was seen by a member of another crew with engine #4 feathered and starting to fall behind the formation. Another eye witness reported engine #3 feathered. The pilot asked for fighter support by VHS and said that two engines were out. Five minutes later a call came through stating that he had fighter support.

Eight crew members were taken prisoner, only Lt Glashoff was killed.

The Glashoff crew was interred at Stalag Luft I, near the town of Barth, and liberated on 1 May 1945. Sgt John E. Haerle was repatriated and was killed in an airplane accident. He is also buried at Ardennes.

2nd Lt Glashoff was initially buried at the soldier graveyard in Haus Spital on 23 November 1944.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Michel Beckers, Terry Hirsch, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / WWII Jewish Servicemen Cards, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Mireille Goedhart, Michel Beckers/Robin Smith 486th Bomb Group