10
Jun
August 1944
August 26: Ludwigshaven
The crew of “Ginger”, shot down near Saarbrucken.
Standing, 1/Lt Ralph V. Shaffer (pilot) MIA, 2/Lt George Lesko (copilot) POW, F/O Norman Phillips (navigator) POW, Herbert Rubin (Bombardier), not on this mission, but was KIA in Holland on another. Kneeling, Sgt Charles Wyatt (engineer) KIA, Sgt Ted Zemonek (waist gunner) KIA, Sgt Frank Loichinger (radio operator) POW, Sgt Albert Lang (ball turret gunner) POW, Sgt Jack Staton (nose gunner) KIA, Sgt Willard Fetterhoff (tail gunner) KIA. Not pictured but on board Ginger: Pvt Jack Maxwell (waist gunner) KIA.
