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Personal info

Full name
GREEN, James R
Date of birth
29 June 1918
Age
25
Place of birth
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Hometown
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-804650
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
723rd Bombardment Squadron,
450th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 February 1944
Place of death
Grunau, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 17 13

Immediate family

Members
James P. Green (father)
Ina B. (Rogers) Green (mother)
Elsie (Patburg) Green (wife)
James R. Green Jr. (son)

Plane data

Serial number
41-29213
Data
Nickname: Round Trip Rosie
Type: B-24H
Destination: Steyr, Austria
Mission: Combat
MACR: 3366

More information

Lt Green was graduated from Langley High School and was a member of the Pennsylvania State Police and later a policeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh. He was the father of an eigh-week-old son whom he had never seen. Lt Green was based in Italy.

On February 1944 a formation was on a mission to bomb installations at Steyr, Austria. Lt. Samsa, who was piloting ship 41-29213 fell out of the element and went down out of control. Other crews observed two chutes leave the ship. The time was approximately 1210 hours. The altitude about 21,000 feet. The Pilot Lt. Samsa and Top Turret Gunner B. Breneman bailed out and spent the rest of the war in several POW camps. The rest of the crew were buried on 16 May 1944 on the southern slope of Gruenauerberg, 150 meters northeast of the so called Trauenbichler-Holzknechthuette.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Press, www.ancestry.com - Veteran Compensation Application File

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Press