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Fisk Martin B.

Name:
Martin B. Fisk
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-743579
Unit:
45th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bomber Group, Very Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-16
State:
Minnesota
Cemetery:
Manila American Cemetery, Taguig, Philippines
Plot:
Walls of the Missing
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Martin B. Fisk was born in 1919. He resided in Hennepin County, Minnesota prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 30, 1942 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Actor and also as Single, without dependents. Martin served as a Second Lieutenant and Navigator/Bombardier on B-29 "Stockett's Rocket" #42-6261, 45th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bomber Group, Very Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

B-29 #42-6261 took off, with a crew of 11 & 1 passenger, from Chakulia, India on a bombing mission over a steel works in Yawata Kyushu, Japan. After taking off from India, and prior to actually going on the mission to Japan, they were scheduled to land in Hsing-Ching, China to refuel. They never reached the base in China. The entire crew was lost for an unknown reason. He was declared "Missing in Action" on June 15, 1944 and is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines. He also has a memorial placed at B-29 DOC hanger plaza, Eisenhower National Airport, Wichita, KS.

Martin was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov