CPL Glenn Herbert Hodak (1922-1945) - Find A Grave Memorial

Tail Gunner: 33299053Glenn H Hodak Cpl PA 10-March-1945 B-29 #44-69686

World War II Honoree (wwiimemorial.com)

NOTE: When General LeMay took command of XXI Bomber Command, he changed the tactics from high-altitude fragmentation bombing to low-altitude incendiary bombings. During the night of 9-10 March 1945, a total of 334 B-29 bombers took off for Operation MEETINGHOUSE to fire-bomb Tokyo. Fifteen square miles of the Tokyo urban area are burned out; an estimated 83,793 Japanese are killed and 40,918 wounded. "Tall in the Saddle" was one of the fourteen B-29 Superforts lost.

MACR 13857

B-29-56-BW (Boeing Wichita) Superfortress serial #44-69686 nicknamed "Tall In The Saddle" (no one in its regular crew was less than six feet in height) tail code: Black-Square-M assigned to the 93rd Bomber Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group (VH), 314th Bomb Wing, XXI Bomber Command, 20th Air Force stationed at North Field on Guam in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific Theatre of Operations.

Capt. Gordon Lewis Muster crew.

Crashed in Itahashi Village, Tsukuba County, Ibargi Prefecture

9 KIA

3 POWs: 2nd Lt. Leland Fishback, Cpl. LaVerne Zehler, and Cpl. Glenn Hodak

2Lt Fishback was moved to Tokyo Kempei Tai Headquarters, and beheaded by the Kempei Tai for reason of his heavy wounds.

Cpls. Zehler and Hodak were burnt to death in the Tokyo Military Prison fire on May 25th 1945.

Glenn H Hodak