500th Bomb Group ( Very Heavy )

AIRCRAFT COMMANDER

SERIAL NUMBER

NICKNAME

FITZGERALD

42-24849

MISSION TO ALBUQUERQUE

Roy Wall
Jim Bowman

Ed Lawson
Scott Muselin

Rich Cookson

Wes Injerd
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Algy Stanley Augunas' parents were born in Lithuania.
His father, Alexander, arrived in the US in 1908 and lived in Brooklyn, New York.
He married his wife Stella in 1916 and Algy was born 8 May 1922 in Brooklyn.

He was executed at the Yokoyama Military Parade Grounds on 18 July 1945.
His remains are buried in Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, New York.

Over the years his parents gradually moved East,
from Brooklyn to Queens and then Smithtown, Suffolk County, Long Island by 1930.

By 1935 they had moved to Islip which is close to
Bay Shore on the southern side of Long Island.

Algy attended Bay Shore High School and was a talented athlete.
Examples are in newspaper clippings in the
Introduction

After graduating from High School in 1939, he attended either
the University of South Carolina or High Point College in North Carolina.
He was in school for one year and
most likely a PE major while also playing baseball for a minor league team.

Upon his return home, he workd for the Republic Aircraft Corportation.

He registered for the draft on 30 June 42.

On 8 February 1943 he enlisted in the US Army at New York City.
There is no list of his stations in his Individual Deceased Personnel file ( IDPF ).
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In the 500th Bomb Group Memorial Association records is a roster of Crews dated 30 May 1944.
Cpl Augunas was assigned to the Fitzerald Crew at Walker AAF, Victoria, Kansas.

Additional information can be found in the
Fitzgerald Crew
section.

Their B-29, Mission to Albuquerque, was rammed during the
17 March 1945 mission to Kobe
and crashed near Mount Futatabi.

This is covered in both the

Fitzgerald Crew and Mission # 32
sections.

Nine of the crew died at the crash site.

Lt Robert Nelson and SSgt Augunas survived, were captured
by guards at a nearby POW Camp, and at some point were taken to
Osaka Kempei Tai Headquarters.

Both were executed 18 July 1945 at the
Yokoyama Military Parade Grounds
located 10-15 miles south and east of Osaka.

There is considerable overlap in these sections:

Yokoyama Execution , Recovery , and Official Documents




Below are his Draft Registration Card
and
Enlistment Record

In the first page of the
Introduction
are a few pages from the 1939 Bayshore High School Yearbook.

The second and third pages have several newspaper clippings about Algy S Augunas.

DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD
30 JUNE 1942
FRONT

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DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD
30 JUNE 1942
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ENLISTMENT RECORD
PAGE 1

source: National Archives online

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ENLISTMENT RECORD
PAGE 2

source: National Archives online

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