Name:
Arthur James Popa
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
35057150
Unit:
762nd Bomber Squadron, 460th Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-30
State:
Ohio
Cemetery:
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot:
I
Row:
Grave:
13
Decoration:
Comments:
On a B-24 Liberator participating in a mission to bomb an oil refinery in Blechammer, Germany when the plane was shot down by German aircraft and crashed into a swampy area near Nemesvita, Hungary beside Lake Balaton on 30 Jun 44. The airplane was returning to its base in Italy.
SSgt Popa is buried in the same grave as 2Lt Edwin W. Baylor