Walter Raymond Erness - The Citadel Memorial Europe

Walter Raymond Erness

Citadel Class 1941
Date of Death 13-dec-42
Service USAAC
War World War II
Cemetery Riverside Cemetery
Rank abbr. 1LT

Cadet Company Sgt. 3rd Bn Staff, I (2); 2Lt. I (1)
Degree Major Physics
Age 25
Date of birth 7-Jun-17
Born in Rochester
Born state NY
Hometown Washington
Country Monroe
State NY
Family Cpl. Lee Erness (brother), Mr. & Mrs. John Lee (uncle & aunt), Raymond H. Erness (father), Mrs. Wayne Brennon (mother), Mrs. John Erness (grandmother), Raymond Boyington (cousin)
Rank First Lieutenant
Service Number S/N O-415977
Entered the service from New York
Enlistment date 10-jul-41
Function Navigator

Squadron 330th Bomber Squadron
Group 93rd Bomber Group
Plane serial number B-24 41-23909
Plane Nickname Ambrose #2
Pilot/crew John "Packy" Roche
Theater Africa
Battle Bombing raid on docks and harbor of Bizerte
Status KIA
Casualty details KIA, Unknown location vic Bone, Algeria B 25 A/C 41-23909 (AMBROSE #2)
Place of death over North Africa
Grave number Sec. S, vet. Plot, grave 123
Town Rochester
Biography https://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=478626

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