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Personal info

Full name
TIGER, Jerome S
Date of birth
18 December 1922
Age
20
Place of birth
Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
O-739130
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Bombardier
Unit
326th Bombardment Squadron,
92nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 October 1943
Place of death
Markt Bibart, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 23 20

Immediate family

Members
Isadore M. Tiger (father)
Bessie Tiger (mother)
Eugene Tiger (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30387
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Schweinfurt, Germany
MACR: 849

More information

2nd Lt Jerome S. Tiger was an electrician before he volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Chicago, Illinois on 2 April 1942.

The airplane was shot down by enenmy fighters.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.findagrave.com – Eric Ackerman, www.b17flyingfortress.de, www.newspapers.com – Chicago Tribune - 28 December 1943

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Laura S