Casualty questionnaire, page 17: RAMSDELL, Raymond G · 18 July 1944
AFPPA-11
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
File . 6979
Name of crew member :
RAMSDELL, Raymond G.
Rank:
s/sge.
Serial number:
Position: Crew (Bomber) : Asst Radite Operator Ganer
Did he bail out?
No ?
Where?
Kempten, Ger.
If not, why not? Believed trapped in ball tarret.
Last contact
or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane : Interphone,
calling out fighters before interphone failure.
Was he injured?
?
Where was he when last seen?
In plane before attack
Any hearsay information: Bombardiers story of Germous
reporting "3 cemrades in wreck" before ship
blew up.
Source:
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition: Either
killed wounded, or trapped in ball turret. Radio
Operator, though wounded saved himself. Waist Ganners
reported (by R.O.) to be lying motionless in wrist would
ordinarily assist this man from ball turret.
Total number of missions of above crew member:
30
Dates and destinations
if possible: 18 July 44 + Memingen, Ger
6-3861, AF
INDIVIDUAL CASUALTY QUESTIONNAIRE
File . 6979
Name of crew member :
RAMSDELL, Raymond G.
Rank:
s/sge.
Serial number:
Position: Crew (Bomber) : Asst Radite Operator Ganer
Did he bail out?
No ?
Where?
Kempten, Ger.
If not, why not? Believed trapped in ball tarret.
Last contact
or conversation just prior to or at time of loss of plane : Interphone,
calling out fighters before interphone failure.
Was he injured?
?
Where was he when last seen?
In plane before attack
Any hearsay information: Bombardiers story of Germous
reporting "3 cemrades in wreck" before ship
blew up.
Source:
Any explanation of his fate based in part or wholly on supposition: Either
killed wounded, or trapped in ball turret. Radio
Operator, though wounded saved himself. Waist Ganners
reported (by R.O.) to be lying motionless in wrist would
ordinarily assist this man from ball turret.
Total number of missions of above crew member:
30
Dates and destinations
if possible: 18 July 44 + Memingen, Ger
6-3861, AF
National Archives, MACR 6979, page 17 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.