Gartner Gene A.

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Gene A. Gartner is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

RB-29A 'Overexposed' Memorial

Name:

Gene A. Gartner

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

Unit:

324th Reconnaissance Squadron (VLR) Photo, 91st Reconnaissance Group

Date of Death:

1948-11-03

State:

Maryland

Cemetery:

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

Plot:

Section 12

Row:

Grave:

5432

Decoration:

Comments:

Gene A. Gartner was born on December 10, 1920. He was the radio operator aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.

SSgt Gartner is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

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