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T/Sgt Dale A. Von Seggern graduated from Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana. He was employed at the aluminum company plant at the time of his enlistment on 18 October 1942. Sgt Von Seggern was graduated from Radio school at Sioux Falls in South Dakota in May 1943. He was sent overseas on 23 August 1943.

The airplane was rammed by a FW-190 flown by Oblt Erich Hondt. Both aircraft went down and disintegrated in mid-air, the wreckage falling over a wide area near Bellingwolde, 28 miles east of Groningen, The Netherlands at 15.30 hours.

The entire crew of ten was killed. Most of the bodies were burnt to the third degree.

Lt Gormley, Lt Fox, T/Sgt Von Seggern, T/Sgt Mc Phee and S/Sgt Presley were buried in the protestant churchyard of Bellingwolde. Lt Motta, Lt Heath, S/Sgt Hilton, S/Sgt Avery Jr. and S/Sgt Rife were buried on 18 October 1943 in the nearby Lutheran cemetery of Leer, Germany, S/Sgt Presle's body was found a week later in a canal.