World War II Honoree

John D. Barringer, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Nashville, Tennessee

Honored By

John Meurs

Relationship

Dutch Historian

SERVICE NUMBER 0-763904. PILOT WITH THE 445TH BOMB GROUP, 701 BOMB SQUADRON, OF THE 8TH U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE BASED IN ENGLAND. ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1944 ON A MISSION TO THE SYNTHETIC FUEL FACTORY IN MISBURG, GERMANY, HIS B-24 BOMBER WITH THE SERIAL NUMBER 42-50467 WAS ATTACKED BY GERMAN FIGHTERS WHILE ON THE BOMB RUN AND CRASHED IN A CORNER OF THE HÄMELER FOREST IN GERMANY. THE WHOLE CREW PERISHED IN THE CRASH. AS THE HONOREE AND 3 OTHER CREW MEMBERS COULD NOT BE INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFIED, THEY RECEIVED A GROUP BURIAL IN NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.