Ira was a pilot of a heavy bomber 15th Airforce B-17. The forst trip out was sufficiently shot up so as to be unservisable for the next operation, He was given a B-24 for the second trip- flying tail position. It was ‘Operation Ploestic Oil Fields’. His plane was shot up to the extent that [...]
Billy had flown 27 missions against Japanese targets serving as radio-operator on a B-29 super fortress from base in the Marianas. On June 5, 1945, he had been on a mission over Kobe, Japan with 600 superforts information, when two Japanese suicide planes attacked his ship. The tail was completely knocked off and the nose [...]
On July 8, 1944, Milton sailed from San Francisco for the South Pacific, He wrote home saying how he was much more fortunate than many of his comrades since they were weeing heavy action on a daily basis and that he had only received superficial wounds on two previous occasions. He was on the Island [...]
Oleen enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943. He was a 1st Lieutenant and Pilot of a B-24 Liberator Bomber stationed in Italy. He flew twenty-eight missions over enemy territory but was tragically killed when the transport plane he was riding in crashed in Northern Italy.
May 23, 1945, Wayne was hit in the chest with fragments from mortar shells. He died as he was being carried off the battlefield.
On November 22, 1944, Luther was going through a wooded area when a Japanese sniper from behind a tree shot him in the head.
He entered the army 1943 and was in the 328th Infanry Regiment 3rd U.S. Army. On January 4, 1945 he was killed by machine gun fire from an enemy tank during the ‘Battle of the Bulge’ in Nothum, Luxembourg Europe. He had received a Sharp Shooter Metal also Expert Rifleman and Infantry Badge.
He was part of the 601 1st Bomb Squadron 398th Bomb Group and was assigned to the B-17 Bomber ‘Contray Mary’. He was a 1st Engineer and top Turret Gunner on this fling fortress. It was on his 11th mission over Hamburg, Germany that he lost his life on June 18, 1944.
He was S/Sgt in the 3rd infantry Division, Company ‘A’. During operation “Mr. Black” in Italy trying to retake Spaccasassi Creek Area, he was reported missing in action. April 26, 1944.
Boiler Man 3rd Class Rose died in Mare Island, California while their ship was in dry dock for repars. He was painting with lead paint, which ate his lungs. He developed pneumonia and died in the hospital January 14, 1951.