Martin Zebersky was a crewman, Gunner, on B-24 42-51692 (Captain Henry J. Kreiensieck crew) of the 759th Bomber Squadron, 459th Bomber Group who was killed in action on August 22, 1944 after a mission to the Blechhammer Oil Refinery (in what is now Blachownia Śląska, Poland). The rest of the crew survived the crash and became POWs.


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Martin Zebersky was born on May 18, 1925. There were three other brothers in the family (Alfred, Stanley, Kenneth). Before joining the US Air Force, he graduated from high school. On the fateful day of August 22, 1944, when the heavily damaged bomber was returning from the target of the Blechhammer-South combat operation to its home base in Giulia, Italy, he was only 19 years old. The Liberator of the 759th Squadron of the 459th Bombardment Group crashed shortly after noon on the left bank of the Bečva River near Nové Dvory in the Přerov region. The lead gunner, Cpl. Martin Zebersky, remained trapped on board the burning machine, unlike the other crew members of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber, s. no. 42-51692, of Captain Henry J. Kreiensieck. His remains were transported by German soldiers to Lipník nad Bečvou, where they were buried in the local cemetery on August 24, 1944. The fresh grave attracted great attention and interest from the town's citizens, and for this reason the Germans exhumed his body a little later and buried it in the military cemetery in the Lipník barracks. A happier fate awaited nine of Martin Zebersky's colleagues, the remaining members of the crew of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator s. no. 42-51692. After their impact, they met in Přerov on the day of the crash, where they were imprisoned. Later, they were taken by train to Frankfurt am Main, where they were interrogated.