73rd Bomb Wing Mission # 10

500th Bomb Group Very Heavy

AIRCRAFT
COMMANDER

B-29 SERIAL NUMBER

NICKNAME

GOLDSWORTHY

42-24656

ROSALIA ROCKET

source: Ancestry.com

The assistance of the following is appreciated :

Roy Wall
Ed Lawson

Scott Muselin
Jim Bowman

Ken Fine
John Szalay

Air Force Historical Research Agency

National Archives, St Louis, Missouri

Ancestry.com

Newspapers.com

Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
University of Texas, Austin

Tributes to Sgt Goffery

Honor States

500th Bomb Group Virtual Cemetery

Scott Muselin

Sgt Goffery was with the Major Robert Goldsworthy crew
during the 3 December 1944 mission to the Musashino Plant, Tokyo, Target 357.

During this mission B-29s of the 73rd Bomb Wing
were attacked 523 times by Japanese aircraft.
Rosalia's Rocket was hit and crashed close to Tokyo.

Sgt Goffery survived the crash and was captured.
He was taken to the Tokyo Kempei Tai Headquarters
and spent two months there.

In Major Goldworthy's Oral History he mentions that Sgt Goffery was taken
from his cell during the last week of January and never seen nor heard from again.

Within his Individual Deceased Personnel File are records
from the Japanese government stating that he died 11 February 1945
and was buried in the Koishikawa Military Cemetery.

Sgt Goffrey's remains were never recovered.

Documents in some of the sections cover this situation.

Below are his Memorial Certificate from the
American Battle Monuments Commission
and

his name within the Courts of the Missing
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

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MEMORIAL CERTIFICATE
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION

 

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SGT GOFFERY'S NAME IN THE
COURTS OF THE MISSING
NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC

source: Sherry HS

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