Name:
Jerome Joseph Hummel
Rank:
Technical Sergeant
Serial Number:
36440555
Unit:
850th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-19
State:
Illinois
Cemetery:
Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France
Plot:
B
Row:
39
Grave:
40
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
TSgt Jerome J. Hummel, radio operator of the B-24 Liberator 42-51124, took off from Harrington, UK at 2306 on a weapons drop for the Columneaux cell of the Resistance. Some say the plane clipped a tree and others maintain it collided with an RAF plane but the result is the same: the plane crashed at 0030, leaving no survivors. Hummel was initially buried in the Ferrières-en-Gâtinais cemetery before being transferred to Epinal American Cemetery in Epinal, France.