Dwayne Henry Huebner was born Aug. 6, 1923 to Henry Theodore and Senta Adelo Vulgraf Huebner. He died Mar. 7, 1945 and is buried in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Cambridgeshire, England.
Sgt. Huebner served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was part of the crew of “Shazam”, piloted by First Lt. Dale E. Williams on a mission to bomb oil and communication facilities as well as railway marshaling yards at Soest, Germany. The weather at take-off was very bad. Clouds and icing conditions prohibited anyone from accurately observing the take-off. However, three witnesses state they saw the aircraft as it descended through the clouds. It appeared to level off, a wing separated from the aircraft, and fire broke out. The fuselage impacted the ground near Old Cotessey, England, in Norfolk, and exploded. There were no survivors. Sgt. Huebner’s grave stone indicates he was from the 567th squadron. The rest of the Crew was from the 564th. He may have been on temporary duty. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com
