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Rank: |
2nd Lieutenant |
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Service Branch: |
U.S. Army Air Corps (AAF) |
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Serial Number: |
O-432975 |
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Group: |
22nd Bomb Group |
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Squadron: |
33rd Bomb Squadron |
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Plane: |
B-26 Marauder, #40-1473 |
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Function: |
Bombardier |
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Status: |
Died in plane crash |
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Date of death: |
April 21, 1942 |
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Place of death: |
near Townsville, Australia |
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Age at death: |
27 |
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Awards: |
Not available |
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Burial 1: |
US Military Cemetery, Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
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Burial 2: |
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii |
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Cenotaph: |
Evergreen Cemetery |
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Born: |
May 26, 1914 |
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Hometown: |
Dillon, South Carolina |
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Additional information: |
Graduated from Clemson College (Class of 1935). The B-26 Marauder crashed and exploded after takeoff from Garbutt Airfield in Townsville, Queensland, Australia; all eight crew members were killed. The pilot of the Marauder was 1st Lt. Louis A. Almeida, of Pennsylvania, who only two days previously had flown his first mission, when the 22nd Bomb Group launched its second air raid against the Japanese at Rabaul. |
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Research by: Victoria Proctor, genealogist Sources: Dillon County War Memorial, NARA World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing (1946), American Battle Monuments Commission, cenotaph, The Dillon Herald (April 30, 1942 issue), Clemson University, Australia @ War Back to WWII Veterans Index Page Copyright © 2014, 2015 Victoria Proctor. All rights reserved. |
