Herbert M. Barag

AVIATION CADET HERBERT M. BARAG was born in New Jersey in November of 1919. He grew up at 1121 Locust Street in Camden NJ. Born to Jacob Barag and Rose Ruttenberg Barag. Herbert Barag he was one of five children. The family had moved to Camden around 1913, and in 1930 Jacob Barag gave his occupation to the census taker as a junkman. By 1942, he was the proprietor of a grocery at Locust & Sycamore Streets in Camden, according to the Camden Courier-Post newspaper.

Herbert Barag grew up and attended school in Camden, graduating from Camden High in 1940. After high school, he attended the Wharton Evening School at the University of Pennsylvania for a year, before enlisting in the Army Air Corps on January 19, 1942 at Trenton NJ.

Herbert Barag was training as a bombardier in Albuquerque NM when he was killed in a training accident 30 miles southwest of town. He would have been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant within 30 days of the accident, had he lived.

Besides his parents, he was survived by sisters, Beatrice and Rita, and by brothers Milton and David Barag.

The Furer-Barag Post of the Jewish War Veterans was named in part for Herbert Barag.

Shamokin News-Dispatch
Shamokin, Pennsylvania
June 24, 1942

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., June 24 (U.R) An Army board of inquiry today began an investigation into the death of Bombardier Cadet Herbert M. Barag, 22, Camden, N. J., who fell 5,000 feet to his death from a twin-engined training plane. The" Albuquerque air base said the youth apparently fell from the plane while on a routine flight with other crew members over the mountains 30 miles southwest of Albuquerque.

Soldiers were sent through the wild country to bring back the body which was located by plane shortly after the accident late yesterday. The youth's body will be sent to Philadelphia at the request of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Barag.

Camden Courier-Post * June 24, 1942

Idaho Statesman
 Boise, Idaho
June 25, 1942