Jack C. Burns

AFPPA-11
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
Name of crew member:
Burns, Jack c.
File 6978
Rank:
s/sigt
Serial number:
18049709
Position: Crew (Bomber) Asst Radio Operater
Did he bail out?
No
Where?
If not, why not?
He was killed in the ball Turret
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane :
Before the
first wave of fighters hit us. Interphone was shot out.
Was he injured?
Killed
Where was he when last seen?
In the ball turret.
Any hearsay information:
Information all hearsay so to say. It is
just what the boys in the back of the ship told me when I saw
them later; during or arter our confinement in Germany, As
Bombardier of course, I had no opportunity to see Jack in the
back of the ship with my onn eyes.
Source:
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition :
Total number of missions of above crew member:
About forty
Dates and destinations if possible:
T.Blanchird
John T. Blanchard
lst. Lt. O.R.C.
6-3861, AF

AFPPA-11
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
Name of crew member:
Burns, Jack C.
File 6978
Rank:
s/Sgt
Serial number:
18049709
Position: Crew (Bomber) Asst Radio Operator
Did he bail out? No
Where?
If not, why not? I believe he was killed iN The baLL TuRReTT
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane: CRew
check c N iNTeRPhoNs Just before act ion begaN.
Was he injured? No.
Where was he when last seen? IN The baLL TURReTT
Any hearsay information NONe.
Source: : NONe
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition: My position
was heal waist. We weRe shot down by evemy aiRaction
OURShip was Riddled, ongire and The wall TURReIT Took
a direct e Nemy cannon FiRe hit FOR The exphasion blew
The a mmunition Cover eggite ball TuR8eTI at MY Eeet.
Total number of missions of above crew member 29 SIRTies and 38 Missions
Dates and destinations if possible: Last Mission was July 18, 1944 and
Mesnington , Germany We were shot down ONTHE bomb RUN.
6-3861, AF