World War II Honoree

Eldon R. Personette

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Honored By

John Meurs

Relationship

Dutch Historian

SERVICE NUMBER 37568985. WAIST-GUNNER WITH THE 445TH BOMB GROUP, 701ST 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. HONOREE FOUND HIS FINAL PLACE OF REST IN THE FORT SNELLING NATIONAL CEMETERY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.