Geza "Gazie" Torok was born on December 21, 1916. He was the son of John Torok and Ethel Torok Szabo Reining. Geza was graduated from Cumberland Township High School with the class of 1936 and was employed by the Crucible Fuel Company before entering the Army Air Forces on June 5, 1943. After completing his basic training at Spartsnburg, S. C., he took an advanced course in gunnery and graduated from Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas, with the wings of a gunner. He received further training at Lincoln, Neb., Kans. He arrived in Ireland on July 26, 1944, and was stationed at a Liberator bomber base in England. He served as a Nose Gunner on B-24 #42-94913 “Pregnant Peggy” aircraft during World War II.

On Oct. 19, 1944, the crews of Pregnant Peggy and Bomber’s Moon, from the 844th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group, 8th Army Air Corps, were sent with their squadron to Mainz to bomb a railroad yard.

In the weeks prior to the attack, the 844th had hit Germany hard, bombing industrial areas in 10 cities and striking Cologne three times.

At 12:56 p.m., according to eyewitness reports, Pregnant Peggy got caught up in the prop wash of another bomber and the pilots lost control in the ensuing turbulence. As they struggled to maintain control of the 33,000-pound plane packed with thousands of pounds of bombs, the Pregnant Peggy slipped back, banked left and dipped down over the Bomber’s Moon.

It continued losing altitude and struck Bomber’s Moon’s tail section with its left wing tip. The wing disintegrated and the engine and prop fell off the Pregnant Peggy. The Pregnant Peggy, now overpowered on one side, went into a lateral spin some 20,000 feet straight to the ground and crashed into the woods near Forsthaus Heldenstein at Edenkoben, Germany.

SGT Torok was Killed in Action in the crash, at the age of 27 and is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

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