Molnar Julius

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Julius Molnar is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Atomic Bomb plaque

Name:

Julius Molnar

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

36453945

Unit:

866th Bomber Squadron, 494th Bomb Group

Date of Death:

1945-08-06

State:

Michigan

Cemetery:

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St Loui

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

156

Decoration:

Comments:

From Kalamazoo, Michigan, Tailgunner of the B-24 bomber "Taola" which took off from Yontan Airfield, Okinawa on 28 July 1945 on a bombing mission against the Japanese battleship Haruna anchored in Kure Harbor by Hiroshima. After dropping their bombs, the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and went into a vertical dive and crashed. Molnar was taken prisoner by the Japanese, and was held at the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters in the center of Hiroshima. He was killed on 6 August 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.