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Sgt. Thomas M. Goffery-WWII

THOMAS_GOFFERY

Rank: Sergeant - Rt. Gun on the Rosalia Rocket
Branch/Unit: 20th AirForce, 500th Bomb Group, 881st Squadron on Saipan, Marianas Islands

Date of Loss: 3 December 1944 on a bombing mission over Tokyo, Japan

A letter, dated 8 October 1944 (in reference to the same Missing Crew Report below) from this office to Major Robert F. Goldsworthy requested all available information regarding the fate of the persons named in paragraph 1d above. The reply, dated 22 October 1945, is, in pertinent part, as follows:

"The following is an account of what happened to my crew to the best of my knowledge:

Sergeant Goffery made a successful bail-out without sustaining injury. He was captured by the Japanese and placed in the same cell-block that held Colonel King, Colonel Brugge, Corporal Schroeder and myself. Sometime druing the end of January, Sergeant Goffery was taken from his cell and I have heard nothing further regarding him. As it was just a few days later than Corporal Schroeder and myself were moved to a second Federal prison, it was our conclusion that Sergeant Goffery was transferred to a different prison."

According to the Conclusion on the Missing Crew Report:

"About the end of January, Sergeant Goffery was removed from his cell near the other four who had been placed in the downtown Tokyo prison, and was believed to have been taken to another prison. He has not since been seen or head from."

Please read the information below which contains more details about Sergeant Goffery.

Goldsworthy's Crew #101, 881st Squad

of the ROSALIA ROCKET

Crew Picture taken 10/9/44
Pictured Left to Right
Standing

1/Lt. Walter J. PATYKULS-Bombardier

1/Lt. Benjamin F. EDWARDS-Navigator

Maj. Robert F. GOLDSWORTHY-Commander

2/Lt. Robert E. SOLLOCK (replaced by Col. Richard T. KING on that fateful flight)-Pilot

1/Lt. Henry W. WARDE-Flight Engineer

Knelling

Sgt. Thomas M. GOFFERY-Rt. Gun.

S/Sgt. James P. CORRIGAN-Tail Gun

S/Sgt. Carl T. WELLS-Radar

Cpl. Harold J. SCHROEDER-Lft. Gun.

Cpl. Robert E. ABEL-Ring Gun. W

Sgt. John A. WRIGHT-Radio

Click on their individual picture to read more about them (links will open into a new browser window.)

Although Robert Sollock (he was a part of the original crew) is pictured above, click his picture to read about Richard King, who replaced him that fateful flight.

Not pictured but present on flight that went down on 12/3/1944 were Col. Byron Brugge, as Observer.

Click here to read the Missing Crew Report

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