Ingmire, Merle Ernest

Individual Personnel Data
Name	Ingmire, Merle Ernest ‡ ⇗
Rank	Staff Sergeant / Technical Sergeant
Serial Number	17128306 ‡
Unit Assignments	Assigned to the 547th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #72 dated 16 April 1944, effective 16 April 1944.
Duty	Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
MOS	748 - Army Airplane Mechanic / Gunner, Flight Engineer
Last Duty Date	8 May 1944
Results	Missing In Action Final Resting Place or Memorial: Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England: Tablets of the Missing
Additional Information	Date of Birth: 7 June 1919 Died of exposure after ditching: body not recovered. Promoted to Technical Sergeant per AAF Station Special Orders #81 dated 1 May 1944.
Related Documents	Missing Air Crew Report # 4812⇓ (8.509 MB)
Photo Album:	Crew Photo Album⇗

Crew Composition When Assigned to the 384th BG
Replacement Combat Crew
CREWMEMBER	POSITION	RESULTS
2nd Lt. Brown, James Wesley, Jr⇗	Pilot	MIA
2nd Lt. Chubb, Donald Vernon⇗	Co-pilot	MIA
2nd Lt. Jones, Kenneth Myron⇗	Navigator	MIA
2nd Lt. Kuba, Carl Willliam⇗	Bombardier	TR
S/SGT. Kozar, Joseph John⇗	Radio Operator / Gunner	MIA
S/SGT. Ingmire, Merle Ernest	Engineer / Top Turret Gunner	MIA
SGT. Hatton, James Augustine⇗	Ball Turret Gunner	MIA
CPL. Yeager, George Hallow, Jr⇗	Tail Gunner	KIA
SGT. Reis, Donald Edward, "Sack"⇗	Flexible Gunner	KIA
SGT. McClintick, Julius Eugene⇗	Flexible Gunner	MIA

Missions, Aircraft, Crews
This individual was credited with 4 Combat Missions.
Number	Date	Target	Position	Aircraft	Mission/Sortie Information
93⇗	22 April 1944	Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards Type: Transportation Location: Hamm, Germany	Engineer/Top Turret	42‑97221⇗	Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗
100⇗	4 May 1944	Target: Friedrichstrasse Railroad Station Type: Transportation Location: Berlin, Germany	Engineer/Top Turret	42‑97201⇗	Combat Mission Credit High Squadron, composite high group, 94th CBW. Sortie Report⇗
101⇗	7 May 1944	Target: Friedrichstrasse Railroad Station Type: Transportation Location: Berlin, Germany	Engineer/Top Turret	42‑37788⇗	Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗
103⇗	8 May 1944	Target: V-Weapon Service Bunker (under construction) Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons) Location: Sottevast, France	Engineer/Top Turret	42‑97081⇗	Combat Mission Credit Damaged by flak, ditched in the Channel. MACR 4812 Sortie Report⇗

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