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Rank: First Lieutenant - Bombadier on the Rosalia Rocket
Date of Loss: 3 December 1944 on a bombing mission over Tokyo, Japan
Branch/Unit: 20th AirForce, 500th Bomb Group, 881st Squadron on Saipan, Marianas Islands
"The following is an account of what happened to my crew to the best of my knowledge:
Lieutenant Patykuls and I were the last to leave the airplane. We had to walk through an amount of fire to reach the escape hatch. I saw one man go with his parachute on fire, and I believe this to be Lieutenant Patykuls although I have no way of substantiating my opinion. Nothing was ever heard from him in prison camp so my own conclusion is that his was the parachute which burned."
Please read the information below which contains more details about Lieutenant Patykuls.
Walter's nephew, Gary, has a webpage up that contains letters to home that Walter wrote. I encourage you to stop by there and read them (link will open up into a new browser window):
| Goldsworthy's Crew #101, 881st Squad
of the ROSALIA ROCKET Crew Picture taken 10/9/44 |
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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.
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