Below are two entries from the 881st Bomb Squadron Morning Report
for 17 March 1945.
Their B-29 is not specifically mentioned but there is a list of the men Missing in Action.

This is followed by two pages of a document from

Headquarters Eighth Army
with the subject " Isolated Burials "

In there the status of each man is briefly stated including temporary
burial sites at USAF Yokohama Cemetery #1.
Five of the men remain unidentified.

Note Page 2, Paragraph 3:

" Nelson and Augunas survive parachuting ...
later died at a prison camp in the Kobe area. "

MORNING REPORT
881ST BOMB SQUADRON
17 MARCH 1945



source : Roy Wall
National Archives, St Louis

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MORNING REPORT
881ST BOMB SQUADRON

FITZGERALD CREW
MISSING IN ACTION

source : Roy Wall
National Archives, St Louis

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BURIALS IN ISOLATED GRAVES
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
MAJOR ROBERT J FITZGERALD CREW
PAGE 1

source: SSgt Algy Augunas Indivdual Deceased Personnel File

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BURIALS IN ISOLATED GRAVES
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
MAJOR ROBERT J FITZGERALD CREW
PAGE 2

source: SSgt Algy Augunas Indivdual Deceased Personnel File

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