Name:
Gene A. Gartner
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
Unit:
324th Reconnaissance Squadron (VLR) Photo, 91st Reconnaissance Group
Date of Death:
1948-11-03
State:
Maryland
Cemetery:
Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Plot:
Section 12
Row:
Grave:
5432
Decoration:
Comments:
Gene A. Gartner was born on December 10, 1920. He was the radio operator aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.
SSgt Gartner is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.
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