kristoffer Posted August 19, 2020 Share #1 Posted August 19, 2020 Lt Braucher was born on 13 January 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. He enlisted on September 9th 1940 in Chicago. Before that he had attended the University of Illinois. He served as a Navigator/Bombardier on B-25 Mitchells with the 446th BS, 321st BG, 12th AF. On April 6th 1943 he completed his first mission and his last on September 5th 1943. With that unit he completed 53 missions! After that tour he enlisted once again and served in the Pacific with the 93rd BS,19th BG, 20th AF. He served aboard a B-29 as the lead navigator and took part in 13 missions. On April 16th 1945 he along with the rest of the crew on the B-29 died over Japan on a mission to bomb Kawasaki, they crashed at Yokohama city. 202 airplanes took part in that mission and 12 were lost. He was only 24 years old. In his service to his country he earned several Air medals, I have his award cards and hope to one day send for a few of them to find out more about him and the missions he took part in. With taking part in about 66 combat missions he must have been through a lot.. In the photo he is the one standing up on the far right. The other photo I found online. I am honored to be the caretaker of this group and would not have had this much information about him it would not have been for a very helpful member on this forum. Rest in peace Lt Braucher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJohn#3RD Posted August 19, 2020 Share #2 Posted August 19, 2020 God Bless him and the other who gave all for the protection of our Great Nation and the liberation of others1 RIP LT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Crow 1986 Posted August 19, 2020 Share #3 Posted August 19, 2020 Two theaters of operations, 66 combat missions...24 years old. Bless'em all. Thanks for being his caretaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristoffer Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted August 20, 2020 Thanks for the comments. Yes, 66 missions is a lot.. I wonder how common that was. Kristoffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medalman90 Posted August 22, 2020 Share #5 Posted August 22, 2020 Beautiful group with a writeup to match. Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted August 22, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 22, 2020 How do you express your gratefulness for such men and women? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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