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POW Sgt. John A. Wright - WWII

JOHN_WRIGHT

Rank: Sergeant - Radio man 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 13 October 1945 (in reference to the same Missing Crew Report below) from this office to Corporal Harold O. Schroeder, all available information regarding the fate of the persons named in paragraph 1d above. The reply, dated 26 October 1945, is, in pertinent part, as follows:

"The Japanese interpreters asks us our names so I know these were the ones on the truck with me: 1st Lt. Henry H. Warde, S/Sgt. Carl T. Wells Jr., Sgt. John A. Wright.

I never heard or saw anything more of them after I was taken from the truck."

Per the MACR Conclusion:

Lieutenant Warde and Sergeants Wells and Wright were with Corporal Schroeder in the back of a truck during the first night after capture, but were then separated from him and the other members of the crew. They were not seen or heard from thereafter."

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

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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