Posted on: Warren County, Ia Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/Warren/11393 Surname: Ball, Sindergard ------------------------- Tribute to a WWII Hero! DEATH: Shot down over Germany during WWII, ca Jul 1944, declared dead 1 year later. In a plane with several other men, not all died, he may have been captured and put in a prison camp. One of the other men in the plane, Anthony Zelnio of Moline, IL. thought that everone had gotten out alive in the plane. MILITARY: Army Air Corps, WWII, 303rd Bomb Group, 359th S.Q., he was a Tail Gunner on the plane that he was shot down in. REF: Army Serial # 37-677-248 - + (XC4167712) - Enlisted 15 Sep 1943 Iowa. BURIED: Margraten, Holland - Plot X, Row 6, Grave 139 or Lieger, Belgium,the only Cemetery in The Netherlands for U.S. Military. Each person in the village adopts a grave and cares for it year-round. REF: "History of Warren Co., IA", p.275; Casualties of World War II; Sgt. G. Warren BALL, Cumming, shot down over Magdeburg, Germany, Sept. 28, 1944. REF: Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC - lists Warren G. Ball, b 17 March 1924, date of death 27 Sep 1944, U.S. Army, serv. #37677248. Warren Glen Ball b: March 17, 1924 in King City, Gentry, MO d: September 27, 1944 in over, Magdeburg, GERMANY md Ila Mae Sindergard b: April 26, 1927 in Wells, Faribault, MN m: September 14, 1943 in prob, Warren, IA d: April 24, 1992 in Des Moines, IA