Personal File · Airman

William J. Garretson.

409th Squadron

The Man Behind the Name

§ Biography

Waist gunner, called Fuzzy, on Frank J. Rezek's 409th crew. On 20 December 1943 the waist gunners reported that replacement tail gunner Fred Wrablik was slumped in his turret after flak hit Teggie Ann on the Bremen run.

Service record.

§ As Catalogued
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number
6720937

Missions flown.

2 catalogued · 06 Mar 1944 — 25 Feb 1944

The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.

In the journals.

1 piece

Articles, columns, and letters naming this airman in the 2nd Air Division Association journals and the group’s own newsletters. The summaries below are ours; the pieces themselves belong to the writers and publications that produced them.

Feature article

Mission to Bremen, Germany, December 20, 1943

By Hubert F. Radford
2nd Air Division Association Journal — Spring 1990 · Vol. 29, No. 1 · p. 15

Hubert Radford, bombardier on Frank Rezek's 409th crew, describes the 20 December 1943 Bremen raid — their second trip to that city in four days.

Read the records.

1 document

Original documents behind what this page says about this airman — reports, records, and histories the archive holds and is free to reproduce. Check the sources for yourself.

Supports 4 facts

2nd Air Division Association Journal — Spring 1990

Periodical · 2nd Air Division Association · Vol. 29, No. 1 · 1990 · Second Air Division Journal
Cited at p. 15

Sources.

§ Provenance
2nd Air Division · 2nd Air Division Digital Archive · 1944
Official record