Note: The death of any Association member should be reported to the Association
Secretary-Treasurer, the Association President or the
Newsletter Editor before you send in
your obituary. Your person's obituary will not be seen here or commented on, UNTIL I receive
word from these persons that the notice of death has been received and the person has been
officially removed from the rolls of the Association. If the deceased is not currently a member or has never been a member, I will process the obituary first-come first-serve as time permits without the need to report to the persons named above.
Purpose: This page is for all who may need the information herein. While the main purpose is to quickly post obituaries of members of the Association and veterans of the Group of deaths as they occur, anyone may use the data here, if you do not want the data public, please inform the webmaster. Retroactive obituaries are certainly welcome and will be posted first-come first-serve like every other received.
Some preferences, for unity of appearance, apply:
A scan of an obituary, either newspaper, cut and paste from web, or mortuary copy. If scanned from newspaper or mortuary, please scan at 300dpi or higher.
An obituary in your own words, in practically any word processor format in lieu of the above.
A picture would be nice, send in snail if you must, email at 300dpi or better. We prefer a picture of the person as they were or as near in time to 1943-1945 as possible but will accept others as necessary.
All obituaries will be posted alphabetically by Surname, First Name, MI, end-tag (Jr, III, etc.) and ASN.
Regardless of format received, all obituaries will be converted to Adobe Reader format. If you do not have this application installed on your PC you will not be able to view the obituaries. A selection of versions of the reader is downloadable from our FTP site. Simply click on the preferred version (higher is better) and answer "run" when the dialog box comes up. Note that for purposes of worldwide availability via Google and other search engines, the text for an obituary will be hyperlinked to the PDF file. The PDF file will reside on the FTP site in a hidden directory, not on the web site (I can't afford do that).
Incorrect spellings, misnomers, rank preferences and so forth.
In death, all are equal. While the obituary may contain any comments on rank desired, the text listing will not include this information. The text listing will include only Surname, First Name, MI followed by ASN (tab delimited) if known. If not provided, or provided in a format Association members would not be familiar with (i.e. nickname, changed names, etc.), the name used while the person was in the Carpetbaggers, from records we have, will be used for the text name. ASNs will be listed as the 1943-45 records show them to be, and if in error, please provide a correction from a primary source. In most cases we have multiple records of ASNs from 1943-45 data.
Privacy: If your email, address, phone number is included in the obituary it will be included online, that's part of the "rapid response" purpose of this page after all. The only protection we provide for this is your common sense. It should be noted that we do not sell, distribute or otherwise broadcast this information to anyone, only readers of the obituaries (who will mostly be interested persons) will see the information.
The webmaster's alternate contact points are always current at: MY CARD.
Walter A. Merritt ASN 14122974 Gunner, 856th BS Wroten Crew
Charles L. Paine, Jr. ASN 02062274 Pilot, 406th NLS
John L. Carey, Jr. ASN 0703604 Navigator, Sandberg Crew 850/857 BS
Ernest M. Rosenthal ASN 0206378 Navigator, West crew, 858th BS
James J. Heddleson ASN 15324873 RO of the Ambrose Crew
Harold H. Clausen,Jr. ASN 39122888 Engineer of the Akerhielm crew
Raymond J. Elliott ASN 32714694 Engineer of the Cunningham crew
Robert R. Ricketts ASN 0808143 Navigator of the Driscoll & G. Johnson crews, 788th BS
Cyril Watney W/T for the Footman circuit
William T. Alford ASN 0559512 Pilot, 788th/859th BS
Felix G. Price ASN 0834496 Pilot, 856th BS
Robert T. Byerley ASN 0692761 Pilot, 850th/857th BS
Arthur Bogusz ASN 16108322 Engineer, Rabbit Crew,406th/858th BSs
Raymond G. Hawley ASN 11070480 Radar Mechanic, 36th/856th BSs
Paul A. Seifert ASN 0717860 Mickey Operator, Fowke & Wonnell crews
Arthur C. Kiehl ASN 19020565 Aircraft crew chief, 406th/858th BSs
John A. Nutt ASN 0696870 Pilot, 406th Night Leaflet Squadron
Edward R. Baush ASN T65667 Pilot, 858th BS
Henry A. Majefski ASN 0700029 Navigator, Melinat crew
Virgil R. Shoger ASN 36635272 RO of the Velarde crew
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