Kohlhaas, Thomas Knapp

Individual Personnel Data
Name	Kohlhaas, Thomas Knapp ‡ ⇗
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Serial Number	O-835664 ‡
Unit Assignments	Assigned to the 544th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #201 dated 11 October 1944, effective 11 October 1944.
Duty	Co-pilot
MOS	1091 - Pilot, B-17
Last Duty Date	30 November 1944
Results	Killed In Action Final Resting Place or Memorial: Calvary Cemetery, Algona, Iowa
Additional Information	Date of Birth: 15 March 1924 Information received from Harry deCourcy in 2006: 'All crew survived the crash: however, Evans, Kohlhaas, Bellovary & Erich were captured by the local Volksturm, shot and buried locally. Their bodies were recovered by US Infantry and interred in US Military Cemeteries in Europe until identified. Kohlhaas was returned to the US and buried in Calvary Cemetery, Algona, Iowa. The remaining crew members were captured and survived as POWs. (This information is from the Dept of The Army, Individual Deceased Person Report [File 293] for John Bellovary, which we obtained in 1996.)'
Related Documents	Missing Air Crew Report # 11129⇓ (13.277 MB)

Missions, Aircraft, Crews
This individual was credited with 6 Combat Missions.
Number	Date	Target	Position	Aircraft	Mission/Sortie Information
226⇗	16 November 1944	Target: Tactical - Artillery Positions Type: Military Location: Eschweiler, Germany	Co-pilot	43‑37703⇗	Combat Mission Credit Landed away at Stratford, due to weather. Sortie Report⇗
227⇗	20 November 1944	Target: Buer Synthetic Oil Plant Type: Oil Industry Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Co-pilot	43‑38062⇗	Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗
228⇗	23 November 1944	Target: Nordstern Coking Plant at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-A.G. Type: Oil Industry Location: Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Co-pilot	42‑98000⇗	Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗
229⇗	25 November 1944	Target: Synthetic Oil Plant Type: Oil Industry Location: Lützkendorf, Germany	Co-pilot	43‑38062⇗	Combat Mission Credit Hot camera ship; landed away at Harwell, due to weather. Sortie Report⇗
231⇗	27 November 1944	Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards Type: Transportation Location: Offenburg, Germany	Co-pilot	43‑38750⇗	Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗
233⇗	30 November 1944	Target: Synthetic Oil Refinery Type: Oil Industry Location: Zeitz, Germany	Co-pilot	43‑37713⇗	Combat Mission Credit Failed To Return Damaged by flak, force-landed near Rebgeshain, Hesse, Germany. Crew survived combat, but four members were murdered by the local Nazi Ortsgruppenleiter in Beltershain, the others became POW. MACR 11129 Sortie Report⇗

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