About
World War II (1939-1945)
Ernest Leonard Roth was born in Schenectady, New York, on September 16, 1923. By 1930, he was living with his family in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School.
Ernest enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He was a first lieutenant serving with the 359th Bomber Squadron, 303rd Bomber Group, Heavy. On May 19, 1944, Ernest was piloting a B-17G bomber "Sky Duster" over Berlin when it was damaged by flak and crashed. Six of the ten crew members were killed in the accident, including Ernest; they were recovered by German forces and reportedly buried in the Döberitz cemetery. He is remembered at the Henri Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium.
*B-17G "Sky Duster" #42-31386
Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon