Fred Roy Goeppinger
Era: World War II
Military Branch: Army
GOEPPINGER, Fred Roy
Fred Roy Goeppinger was born on May 8th 1918 to George August & Anna Bertha Auguste [Manske] Goeppinger in Duluth, Minnesota.
Mr. Goeppinger entered the U.S. Army Air Corps on February 21st 1941. His brother Ralph Clarence Goeppinger also served in the Army.
Fred served as the crew chief on a B-24 Liberator bombers with the 38th Bomb Squadron of the 30th Bomb Group. He serviced and maintained B-24s in the Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands and Mariana Islands in the Pacific Theater. He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant (MSGT).
During R&R during the war he married Dorothy Lorraine [Carlson] on May 12th 1942 in Riverside California.
SGT Goeppinger and his five-member crew maintained and readied the plan for flights to bomb atolls in the Pacific. His crew completed 33 missions and sank one Japanese ship.
He was honorably separated in September 1945. After the war he returned home to his wife Dorothy and they started a family.
Mr. Goeppinger died on February 8th 2010 at Viewcrest Health Center in Duluth. He was cremated.
Source(s): Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War II Project. 91.
Albert J. Amatuzio Research Center | Veterans Memorial Hall (vets-hall.org)
