ISOB Burton Gross -USAAF Operation Carpetbagger
Details:
Collective grave, Plot VII, Row B, 2-5
The ISOB is of LT Burton Gross who was killed in a crash nearby while on an orientation flight with the RAF conducting an "Operation Carpetbagger mission. Records indicate that he flew as part of the 22nd Anti-Submarine Squadron, but he may have been part of the 36th Bomber Squadron of the 801st Bomber Group which was beginning Carpetbagger missions at the time.
Monument Text:
Lieutenant B.W. Gross
United States Army Air Force
11th November 1943 Age 27
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
22nd Anti-Submarine Squadron
36th Bomber Squadron, 801st Bomb Group, Heavy
801st Bomber Group
French Resistance
Royal Air Force (RAF)
United States Air Force
US Army Air Corps
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Operation Carpetbagger
Other images :
