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Delbert L. Bartz
World War II - U. S. Army Air Corps
 Mountain High School Graduation 1937  1943 |
 Delbert L. Bartz
Technical Sergeant Air Chief Mechanic Air Corps 77th Bomber Sqaudron 28th Bomber Group Killed In Action Born: Jan. 29, 1920 Died: Nov. 23, 1943 burial: Missing At Sea Memorial: Mountain Cemetery Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii |
Air Craft
 B-25C Mitchell Aircraft
Technical Sergeant Delbert L. Bartz served as Air Chief Mechanic in Alaska and over the Pacific. |
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Military History
Regiment
77th Bomber Squadron,
28th Bomber Group, Heavy
Delbert L. Bartz enlisted in the Wisconsin 20th Regular Army on November 18, 1941 as a Private, before the USA entered World War II on December 7, 1941. He was among the first to be assigned to the Army Air Corps 77th Bomber Squardron during World War II. Among the aircraft he technical trained on were B-18 Bolos, PT-17 Stearman trainers and early model B-26 Marauders while in Texas and South Carolina. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the new Elmendorf Field, near Anchorage, Alaska, being in one of the first Air Corps units assigned to the Alaska Territory. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the squadron flew antisubmarine patrols over the Gulf of Alaska. Delbert Bartz became a Technical Sergeant and on board Chief Air Mechanic, stationed at the following fields:
When the Japanese invaded the Alaskan Aleutian Islands in June 1942 (considered a vital strategic threat), the squadron was reassigned to Fort Glenn Army Airfield on Adak Island; and began combat missions over the captured islands of Kiska and Attu. Delbert Bartz was among the crews who participated. He flew on combat missions with B-26 Marauders and later B-25 Mitchell medium bombers during the Aleutian Campaign. The Aleutian Islands Campaign was a struggle over the Aleutian Islands, part of the Alaska Territory, in the American theater and the Pacific theater starting on 3 June 1942. A small Japanese force occupied the Alaskan islands of Attu andKiska. A battle to reclaim Attu was launched on May 11, 1943 and completed following a final Japanese banzai charge on May 29. On 15 August 1943, an invasion force landed on Kiska in the wake of a sustained three-week air bomber barrage of which Delbert Bartz was part. The battle over Kiska is known as the "Forgotten Battle."
Delbert Bartz was later confirming lost on flight from Kodiac to
Anchorage, Alaska. News Articles
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Moutain Mighty Proud of Part in War Errot - by Frank Horak 1943
Missing
In Action
Tech. Sgt. Delbert L. Bartz, born and raised at
Mountain, is listed as
missing since Nov. 23, 1943 by. the War department. Bartz, enlisted in
the Air corps on Nov. 17, 1941, as he was nearing his 22nd birthday.
Following a training period at various air fields in the United States,
he was assigned to Alaska as an air chief mechanic on Oct. 23, 1942,
and took part in the invasion of Kiska and Attu islands.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oconto Falls News May 1944 Technical Sergeant Delbert Bartz Confirmed Lost _____________________
Delbert Bartz was confirming lost on flight from Kodiac to
Anchorage, Alaska. He died November 23, 1943 during a 77th Bomb WG B-25C aircraft accident on
a routine flight between Amchitka and Fort Glenn, Alaska. He was an US
Air Corps Technical Sergeant crew member. Service Number 16,022,983.
Remains were never found. Notification of death came 4 May 1944.
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