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Harvey Reiquam
MACR-11754 Account
S/Sgt. Harvey M. Requiem served as Right Waist Gunner. He was listed as MIA on the MACR. The MACR spells his surname as "Reiquan" and German records spell it "Raiquam" — the correct form appears to be Requiem based on cross-referencing.
German records identify him as one of five crew members killed in the crash near Saalau/Kamenz. He was from North Dakota. His body was not individually identified.
Killed in Action
Sortie Log
7 CATALOGUED SORTIES
12 OCT 1944 — 16 JAN 1945
12 OCT 1944 — 16 JAN 1945
The sorties 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.
8AF Mission
Date
Target
Aircraft
№ 674
12 OCT 1944
OsnabrückM/Y
42-100670
№ 760
24 DEC 1944
Ahrweiller??
Formation position 4-3
42-94814
№ 760
24 DEC 1944
Ahrweiller??
Position in formation listed as 4-3
42-94814
№ 770
30 DEC 1944
MechernichM/Y
Formation position: 2-2
42-94814
№ 781
05 JAN 1945
Target unrecorded
Hi Right 3-3
42-51241
№ 783
06 JAN 1945
Bonn Rhine H/BH/B
Lo Left 4-1
42-XX501
№ 796
16 JAN 1945
Lauta
B-24J Liberator serial 42-51275, assigned to the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group, departed Hardwick on 16 January 1945 on a bombing mission to Lauta, Germany. Eyewitness S/Sgt. Metro Hereshko observed the aircraft drop out of formation about a minute after bombs away, peel off to the left and downward apparently under control, then go into a spin. No parachutes were observed from the tail position before visual contact was lost. German records confirm the aircraft crashed on 16 January 1945 at approximately 1300 hours at the north border of the village of Saalau near Wittichnau, northeast of Kamenz, Saxony. The crash was reported as 100% destruction. Of the nine-man crew, five were captured, one (F/O Robert A. Newell) was killed when his parachute failed to open, and five other crew members were killed in the crash. German authorities identified the five dead by name from information provided by T/Sgt. Charles W. Curran.
42-51275