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PRICE, Oscar Franklin - Date of
birth
22 September 1916 -
Age
28 - Place of
birth
Polk County, Missouri -
Hometown
Deepwater, Henry County, Missouri
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
39701289 -
Rank
Private -
Function
unknown -
Unit
456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion,
82nd Airborne Division
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Awards
unknown
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
18 May 1945 - Place of
death
The airport
Evere, Belgium
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| D | 28 | 6 |
Immediate family
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Members
Homer G. Price (father)
Mary M. (Rector) Price (mother)
Audrey Price (sister)
William H. Price (brother)
Alpha J. Price (brother)
Mildred J. Price (sister)
More information
Pvt Oscar F. Price was a barber.He enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 3 July 1943.
The flight was with a British Hudson with serialnumber V9169, detailed to fly from Luneburg, Germany and transport British former POWs to Brussels, Belgium.
These were nonstop flights continuing night and day, and regarded as an emergency to remove all the POW’s out of Germany as soon as possible.
On this particular flight, there was not enough of the British POWs available to fill the airplane, so American POWs were boarded.
There were eight passengers on board and five crew members.
Upon landing, the airplane bounced badly and the pilot attempted re-take off, engines gunned, it climbed steeply, fell back in a tail slide, stalled, nosedived to the ground, and burst into flames upon impact. There were no survivors.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, www.ww2-airborne.us,
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?6458-Aircraft-US-POW-crash-in-Belgium, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Storiesbehindthestars.org