Date of Incident06/13/1943
ConflictWorld War II 1941-1945
RankStaff Sergeant
Unit336th Bomber Squadron, 95th Bomber Group,Heavy
StatusMissing in Action
Staff Sergeant Broch was the ball turret gunner of a B-17F Flying Fortress heavy bomber that encountered heavy enemy opposition and crashed in the Baltic Sea between the Danish Islands and Kiel, Germany.
Staff Sergeant Broch is listed on the Tablets of the Missing in the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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