William Fesler
Hometown when you
entered the Service:
Frankton, IN
Service Number: 0-750966
Bomb Group: 40th
Squadron: 25th
Location of Unit
when assigned:
Chakulia, India
Missions Flown: First bomb mission over Yawata. Lost on February 1, 1945 on bomb mission to Singapore Dry-docks.
Hump Missions Flown:
Targets:  
 
Awards/Decorations:  
 
Service Schools attended:
 
Pecos Basic Flying School  
Marfa, Texas AAF Advanced Flying -43G   Jul 1943
B-29 School, Pratt, Kansas,  
 
Military Specialty Earned/Assigned:  


 
Military Rank Upon Discharge:   1st Lt.
 
Crew Type:   Flight Crew
 
Aircraft Name and
Serial Number/s:
  42-24589 Calamity Jane
 
Were you a POW?:   No Where?:
 
Were you interned?:   No Where?:
 
Date transferred from the 58th Bomb Wing:  
 
Post-World war II Military Service:  
 
Post-World war II Civilian Occupation/s:  
 
Thoughts about service in the 58th Bomb Wing:  
 
Further Comments :   Lt. Fesler was the co-pilot in the lead plane captained by mission leader Aubrey Richard. All members were lost including; Raymond Schuette, Jim Miller, Walter Ingalls, James Brennan, Edward Walter, George Hanger, Herbert Bridges, Alvin Fiedler, Oliver Kidd, Lee Chapman.