Koerner

We will soon provide here the story of B-24J L.A.B. bomber #42-100040 and crew that disappeared on May 26, 1944. Crew names were: 2nd Lt. Rex D. Arnold - Co-Pilot (OK) 2nd Lt. Seymour Goldsmith - Navigator (NY) S/Sgt. Matthew O. Kelsey - Gunner (CA) T/Sgt. Paul J. Koerner - Gunner (MD) S/Sgt. Anthony S. Kryscio - Radar Operator (PA)...

Paul J. Koerner, born around 1917, was son of Mrs. Gertrude Gibbons who resided in Hagerstown, Maryland. He had his tonsils and adenoids removed at Washington County Hospital in June 1938, at around age 21. Paul J. Koerner enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 10, 1940, prior to the start of war, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time...