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First Lieutenant Luther Abel. Fighter Pilot, 495th Fighter Training Group. Assigned to 84FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 552FTS, 495FTG 8AF USAAF as instructor. P-47C 41-6234 lost engine on local training flight on 9 Jan 1944. A/C broke out of underca
Died 22 September 1944
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Technical Sergeant Edwin Moyer. Top Turret Gunner, 34th Bomb Group. Killed in Action (KIA) 22 September 1944 in AC #4338294 Technical Sergeant Edwin N. Moyer was born June 10, 1918. His next of kin were his wife, Virginia Moyer, his daughter, Judith Ann
Died 22 September 1944
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Lieutenant Colonel Donald McLeod. Pilot, 52nd Fighter Group. Joined RAFVR, service pilot training, shipped overseas to ETO, operational training, assigned to 121 Sqn, Malta via A/C carrier HMS Eagle, assigned to 126 Sqn, shot down 2 April 1942 in Spitfire
Died 22 September 1946
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First Lieutenant Seymour Deutsch. Navigator, 493rd Bomb Group. Flew 36 missions over Germany with the same crew. . 12 Missions in B-24 'Shoo Shoo Baby' and 24 in B-17 'Day's Pay'. 51,000 employees at the Hanford Engineer Works don
Died 22 September 1988
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Lieutenant Colonel Pierce Wiggin. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Assigned to 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group from 12th Replacement Depot. Assigned to participate in Operation FRANTIC II, the Russia Shuttle mission. Succumbed to vertigo on cli
Died 22 September 1991
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Private First Class Mage May. Military Occupation Specialty 409 - Medical Technician, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned as Medical Corps. Promoted from Private to Private First Class on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #41 dated 1 March 1944.
Died 22 September 1992
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Richard Rice. Pilot, 491st Bomb Group. Richard P Rice was born in Gillespie, IL in 1924. He moved with his family to Bragg City, MO in 1929. He attended Missouri Military Academy, Mexico, MO graduating in 1942. He volunteered and was accepted into the
Died 22 September 2000
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Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) Walter Frederick. Nose Gunner, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 22 September 2001
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Lieutenant Harold Weekley. Pilot, 398th Bomb Group. Harold "Hal" Weekley was shot down on 13 August 1944 on his 20th mission in B-17 42-102516, bombing a bridge at Le Manoir, France. The crew bailed out at 25,000 feet, all survived, some capture
Died 22 September 2010
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Staff Sergeant Murray Byrd. Radio Operator Gunner, 452nd Bomb Group. Flew on the Big Week missions, the first Berlin raids and the D-Day missions. Flew the 21 June 1944 shuttle mission to Poltava Went to Auburn University on a football scholarship. Devote
Died 22 September 2012
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