The 483rd Bomb Group Archive

Serviceman

Jerry Freiman

816th

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Army serial number
13106376
Rank
SSGT (14 June 1944), TSGT (20 June 1944), Sgt. (18 July 1944)
Hometown
BRONX NY; Bronx NY
In the book
Heroes of the 483rd, p. 86
Sources
483bg-record, assoc-roster, heroes-book, macr-crew · service record at 483bg.org

Crews

Awards

DateAwardGeneral orderRank then
14 June 1944Air Medal1037SSGT
14 June 1944Air Medal, 1st oak leaf cluster1040SSGT
20 June 1944Air Medal, 2nd oak leaf cluster1214TSGT

From the general orders indexed by the Army Air Corps Library and Museum.

Aboard a lost aircraft

Statements, mentions and histories

Casualty questionnaire, page 14: FREIMAN, Jerry · 18 July 1944
AFPPA-11
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
File 7098
Name of crew member:
FREIMAN, Jerry
Rank:
1/Sgt.
Serial number:
13106376
Position: Crew (Bomber) Radio Oporator
Did he bail out?
No
Where?
If not, why not?
He didn't have one on when the ship boke in two right under
his fest in the radio room.
Last contact or conversation just prior to or at time of losa of plano He told
Bombadier bombay doors were open.
Was be injured? No knowledge
Where seen?
was he when last I him last maning bis gun in radio room
Any hearsay information:
A 2nd. Lite. I - Hildreth saw what he thought W.S.S.
he Iyine on the ground near the rear half of our ship.
Source:
2nd. Lite Hildreth 816th B.S 483nd Boto
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition: He was levedently
buried by the Germans and they failed to ramove and turn in its identifica-
tion taes.
Total number of missions of above crew member:
35
Dates and destinations if possible: He started oparation 4/12 100 on Split, Yugo.
Ro : hed all of the popular targets in the Ba licans, southern Fronos and
notthern Italy. Shot down 7/18/44 on missLion over Memningen Gormany
6-3861, AF

National Archives, MACR 7098, page 14 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.

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