For some reason I kept coming back to the Bruns line as I was doing my research and then I found this wonderful photograph of Elizabeth Bruns and her husband Joseph Farno. I did get a lot of research done and found several new families to add to my research but I just couldn't find the right person to write about. On Sunday, I tried to focus my research again and started in my Bruns and Hilgefort line but ended up in the Mescher and Dahlinghaus lines. He was picked up in pieces, and could not be recognized. While Henry Hilgefort was in the act of mending a fly wheel belt in a saw mill near Berlin, 6 miles south of here, he was caught in some way and hurled with tremendous force around the machinery, mangling him in such a way as to produce instant death. The newspaper article was pretty graphic: I found a young man who died in an accident in August Wise's sawmill. This time I ended up in the Hilgefort family. It was a beautiful day, sunny and in the 70s. So I took a break and went on an airboat ride with the family. Saturday morning I started working on the Brucken family again only to end up in the Koverman family. I have started trying to find the right person to write about several times. This is week 46 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Somewhere along the line I missed another week of writing. In 1949 the airmen were repatriated to the US and buried in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. In 2008, the ceremony was attended by members of the Bomber Squadron who placed a headstone with the names of the fallen airmen at the site. Since 1972, there has been an annual memorial service at the site to remember the victims of this event. The other was a monument to the 23 airmen that lost their lives. One of the monuments was a memorial to the more than 2,000 residents of the city that were killed that night. The remaining 121 B-29s returned to their base after a successful mission.Ī resident of the town, Fukumatsu Ito, found the wreckage of the bombers and buried the US airmen and built two monuments at the location. Both planes went down near the city and all 23 airmen were killed in the crash. As the 123 B-29s approached the city and began dropping their bombs, the city below began to glow with fires and the heat caused turbulence in the air along with blocking visibility due to the amount of smoke. This was to be a nighttime incendiary raid. It was a clear night and visibility was perfect for their flight. On the evening of 19 June 1945, his plane, along with 122 other B-29s took off from Guam air field on a mission to bomb the city of Shizuoka, Japan. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant and Navigator on a B-29 bomber.

Edwin was assigned to the 52nd Bomber Squadron and served in the Pacific theater. In 1935 he was living in Toledo, Ohio and in 1940 he was living in Paulding, Ohio.Įdwin attended college and in 1942, after three years of school, he enlisted in the military to serve his country during WW II. Since he was the son of a preacher he moved fairly frequently. Edwin had three siblings, Twila, Calvin and James. Edwin Allen Rodeheffer and Edna M Knierem. Edwin was born on 7 April 1922, the son of Rev. Edwin Allen Rodeheffer, Jr., my wife's second cousin 2 times removed. The man standing in the center of the photo is 2nd Lt. The picture to the left is of the 52nd Bomber Squadron, Group 29, US Army Air Force during WW II. This one is in remembrance of the veterans who have fought and died to keep our country free.

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