41-29371 B-24 Liberator the "Crippled Bitch" in the 786th BS, 466th BG, 8th Air Force. Members of the Weeklund crew:
1Lt. Oscar A. Weeklund, Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, Co-Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Elijah J. Cockrill, Jr., Navigator, KIA.
2Lt. David Richard Fitzgibbons, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Francis Paul LeBlanc, Radio Operator, POW.
TSgt. Kenneth G. Brookshier, KIA.
SSgt. William Charles Wixted, Top Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Earl W. Belleville, KIA, stateside memorial.
SSgt. Woodrow James Schmidt, Ball Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Maurice T. Verges, Jr., KIA.
Body of Lt. Langenmayr To Arrive in City Tonight
The body of 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, 23, of Cicero, bomber pilot who was killed in action over France in June 1944, will arrive home tonight. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecilia Langenmayr, Thompson and Hamilton rds., Cicero, and at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Herat Church, Cicero. Military rites will be conducted by members of the James Spires Post, American Legion. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minoa. Friends may call tomorrow and Friday afternoon and evening. Lt. Langemayr was a graduate of North Syracuse High School where he was active in track and in music. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Church and an altar boy. Before entering service he was a brakeman on the New York Central Railroad. He entered service Jan. 6, 1943, receiving preflight training at Nashville, Tenn.; Clarksdale, Miss., and at New Port, Ark. He went to England in April, 1944, and participated in 28 missions over enemy territory before being reported missing in action after a flight on June 25, 1944. Surviving, besides his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Brisson Langenmayr; a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Ann Cecilia; two brothers, Carl and Donald Langenmayr and a sister, Mrs. John Carroll. (Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, Wednesday, October 27, 1948, p. 18, Col. 4-5)
1Lt. Oscar A. Weeklund, Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, Co-Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Elijah J. Cockrill, Jr., Navigator, KIA.
2Lt. David Richard Fitzgibbons, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Francis Paul LeBlanc, Radio Operator, POW.
TSgt. Kenneth G. Brookshier, KIA.
SSgt. William Charles Wixted, Top Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Earl W. Belleville, KIA, stateside memorial.
SSgt. Woodrow James Schmidt, Ball Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Maurice T. Verges, Jr., KIA.
Body of Lt. Langenmayr To Arrive in City Tonight
The body of 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, 23, of Cicero, bomber pilot who was killed in action over France in June 1944, will arrive home tonight. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecilia Langenmayr, Thompson and Hamilton rds., Cicero, and at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Herat Church, Cicero. Military rites will be conducted by members of the James Spires Post, American Legion. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minoa. Friends may call tomorrow and Friday afternoon and evening. Lt. Langemayr was a graduate of North Syracuse High School where he was active in track and in music. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Church and an altar boy. Before entering service he was a brakeman on the New York Central Railroad. He entered service Jan. 6, 1943, receiving preflight training at Nashville, Tenn.; Clarksdale, Miss., and at New Port, Ark. He went to England in April, 1944, and participated in 28 missions over enemy territory before being reported missing in action after a flight on June 25, 1944. Surviving, besides his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Brisson Langenmayr; a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Ann Cecilia; two brothers, Carl and Donald Langenmayr and a sister, Mrs. John Carroll. (Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, Wednesday, October 27, 1948, p. 18, Col. 4-5)
41-29371 B-24 Liberator the "Crippled Bitch" in the 786th BS, 466th BG, 8th Air Force. Members of the Weeklund crew:
1Lt. Oscar A. Weeklund, Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, Co-Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Elijah J. Cockrill, Jr., Navigator, KIA.
2Lt. David Richard Fitzgibbons, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Francis Paul LeBlanc, Radio Operator, POW.
TSgt. Kenneth G. Brookshier, KIA.
SSgt. William Charles Wixted, Top Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Earl W. Belleville, KIA, stateside memorial.
SSgt. Woodrow James Schmidt, Ball Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Maurice T. Verges, Jr., KIA.
Body of Lt. Langenmayr To Arrive in City Tonight
The body of 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, 23, of Cicero, bomber pilot who was killed in action over France in June 1944, will arrive home tonight. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecilia Langenmayr, Thompson and Hamilton rds., Cicero, and at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Herat Church, Cicero. Military rites will be conducted by members of the James Spires Post, American Legion. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minoa. Friends may call tomorrow and Friday afternoon and evening. Lt. Langemayr was a graduate of North Syracuse High School where he was active in track and in music. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Church and an altar boy. Before entering service he was a brakeman on the New York Central Railroad. He entered service Jan. 6, 1943, receiving preflight training at Nashville, Tenn.; Clarksdale, Miss., and at New Port, Ark. He went to England in April, 1944, and participated in 28 missions over enemy territory before being reported missing in action after a flight on June 25, 1944. Surviving, besides his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Brisson Langenmayr; a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Ann Cecilia; two brothers, Carl and Donald Langenmayr and a sister, Mrs. John Carroll. (Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, Wednesday, October 27, 1948, p. 18, Col. 4-5)
1Lt. Oscar A. Weeklund, Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, Co-Pilot, KIA.
2Lt. Elijah J. Cockrill, Jr., Navigator, KIA.
2Lt. David Richard Fitzgibbons, Bombardier, POW.
TSgt. Francis Paul LeBlanc, Radio Operator, POW.
TSgt. Kenneth G. Brookshier, KIA.
SSgt. William Charles Wixted, Top Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Earl W. Belleville, KIA, stateside memorial.
SSgt. Woodrow James Schmidt, Ball Turret Gunner, POW.
SSgt. Maurice T. Verges, Jr., KIA.
Body of Lt. Langenmayr To Arrive in City Tonight
The body of 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, 23, of Cicero, bomber pilot who was killed in action over France in June 1944, will arrive home tonight. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecilia Langenmayr, Thompson and Hamilton rds., Cicero, and at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Herat Church, Cicero. Military rites will be conducted by members of the James Spires Post, American Legion. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minoa. Friends may call tomorrow and Friday afternoon and evening. Lt. Langemayr was a graduate of North Syracuse High School where he was active in track and in music. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Church and an altar boy. Before entering service he was a brakeman on the New York Central Railroad. He entered service Jan. 6, 1943, receiving preflight training at Nashville, Tenn.; Clarksdale, Miss., and at New Port, Ark. He went to England in April, 1944, and participated in 28 missions over enemy territory before being reported missing in action after a flight on June 25, 1944. Surviving, besides his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Brisson Langenmayr; a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Ann Cecilia; two brothers, Carl and Donald Langenmayr and a sister, Mrs. John Carroll. (Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, Wednesday, October 27, 1948, p. 18, Col. 4-5)
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