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Personal info

Full name
LAMPMAN, Paul Alvin Jr
Date of birth
27 March 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Plum City, Pierce County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Durand, Pepin County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16133123
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Engineer
Unit
331st Bombardment Squadron,
94th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
3 March 1944
Place of death
Itzehoe, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Paul A. Lampman (father)
Minnie L. (Oberding) Lampman (mother)
Meryl A. Lampman (sister)
Norma M. Lampman (sister)
Wanda L. Lampman (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-38075
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Berlin
Mission: Bombing of the industrial areas
MACR: 2794

More information

T/Sgt Paul A. Lampman Jr. graduated from Arkansaw High school in Durand and attended the NYA school in Eau Clair, Wisconsin as a mechanic student. He was employed at Soconey-Vacum Oil Company.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 23 October 1942. He was sent overseas in October, 1943.

On their way to the target, the formation crossed another formation that was returning without bombing their target, due to bad weather. The airplane collided head on with plane 42-31112, killing the entire crew of both planes.

There is a contradiction about the exact place where the plane crashed. According to certain documents, it crashed in Itzehoe, but other documents mention that the body of Thomas Robey washed ashore in Busum on 5 May 1944. This can mean that the airplane crashed in the North Sea.

T/Sgt Lampman is remembered at Porcupine Cemetery in Porcupine, Pepin County, Wisconsin with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, Greg Lampman, www.wwiimemorial.com, NARA, MACR, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Greg Lampman, www.findagrave.com - Jackie Winn Ross