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TECHNICAL
SERGEANT NORMAN S. ROSENBERG was born in New York in 1919. He had
attended three years of college and was residing in Atlantic County NJ
when drafted. He was inducted at Fort Dix NJ on April2, 1942. Norman
Rosenberg was unmarried at that time.
Qualifying
for flight duty, Norman Rosenberg became a member of a B-17 bomber air
crew. Trained as a radio operator and assigned to the 334th Bomber
Squadron, 95th Bomb Group,
Technical Sergeant Rosenberg perished during a raid on Berlin in a
Lockheed/Vega B-17G-5-VE "Flying Fortress" #42-39924,
nicknamed TORNADO and piloted by 2nd Lieutenant William Sheehan on 24th
May 1944 along with 7 other men. Six other aircraft of the twenty-two
that took off that day from his unit were damaged during the raid. His
was the only one lost, however. The 95th Bomb Group (H) achieved fame as
the first unit to strike Berlin in a daylight raid, on March 6, 1944.
He
was brought home after the war and is buried, along with Lieutenant
Sheehan and two other members of his crew and 9 members of another crew,
at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington VA.
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