MC NEISH, Cecil C

Servicenumber:

O-2070085

Age:

20

Born:

1925 , Pennsylvania

Hometown:

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

Family:

Jim Mc Neish (Father)
Erma A. Mc Neish (Mother)
James M. Mc Neish (Brother)
Francis E. Mc Neish (Brother)
Denny Mc Neish (Brother)

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Function:

Bombardier/Navigator

Regiment:

-

Battalion:

-

Division – Transport:

-

Company – Squadron:

837th Bomb Squadron  

Unit – Group:

487th Bomb Group, Heavy

Plane data:
(Serialnumber, MACR, etc.)

Serialnumber: 44-8746
Type: B-17 GSH
Destination: Oranienburg, Germany
MACR: 13089

Date of death:

15 March 1945

Status:

KIA

Place of death:

Wittenburg, Germany

Spot:

Not available

Awards:

Air Medal, Purple Heart

Gravenumber:

Plot G, Row 15, Grave 54

Cemetery:

American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle

Biography:

-

Other information:

On March 15, 1945 on the return leg of his 6th mission, with its bombs already  dropped on the rail yards at Oranienburg, Germany, his B17 was over Wittenburg when it was hit with a burst of flak that tore the plane open from the bomb bay to the forward ball turret and tore off the nose. Cecil and the forward ball turret gunner were killed instantly. Cecil was listed as Missing in Action until 1947 when his body was found in a churchyard cemetery in Perlburg, Germany.