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Personal info

Full name
BURG, Jack J
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Cook county, Illinois
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-743756
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Bombardier/Navigator
Unit
668th Bombardment Squadron,
416th Bombardment Group, Light
Awards
Distinguished Flying Cross,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
Valender, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 3 36

Immediate family

Members
Jean J. Burg (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
44-108
Data
Type: A-20K-10
Destination: Münstereifel, Germany
Mission: Not available
MACR: 12016

More information

1st Lt Jack J. Burg attended high school for 4 years and was a clerk. He joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army in Chicago, Illinois on 14 March 1941.

The plane took direct hits on the bomb bay and
left engine. It went down just after opening bomb bay doors.

According to a grave report of Feldgendarmerie Trupp a (mot) 648 of te 3 Fallschirmjäger Division, Jack J. Burg was taken prisoner and died during an American artillery shelling of Valender. He was initially buried at the army cemetery of this village next to the church.

The other crew members were killed in the crash.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.anciencoins.ac/416/668history

Photo source: Jac Engels, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Lindblom Technical High School 1938