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Captain Joseph Powers. Pilot, 495th Fighter Training Group. Captain Joseph H Powers, was born 8 June 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended school in Tulsa and graduated Tulsa Central High School. He was attending The University of Oklahoma on 7 December 19
Died 18 January 1951
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Major Dominic Gentile. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Don Gentile was born to Italian parents in Piqua, Ohio. As a boy he had always be fascinated with flying and built, as his mother remembered, hundreds of model airplanes. Don used to say to his m
Died 28 January 1951
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Major Raymond Wetmore. Fighter Pilot, 359th Fighter Group. Ray Wetmore enlisted aged 18 in 1941, he was commissioned in March 1943 and joined the 359th Fighter Group. He became top Ace of the 359th Fighter Group, scoring 21 victories, his final kill was a
Died 14 February 1951
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Captain Shelton Monroe. Fighter Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Captain Monroe was from Waycross, Georgia. He entered the 4th Fighter Group, 334th Squadron in January 1944, where he was assigned until January 1945, when he was transferred to the 335th Squadron
Died 17 April 1951
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Captain William Fairfield. Pilot, 384th Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #85 dated 6 May 1944, as crew pilot, 30 combat missions.
Died 27 June 1951
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First Lieutenant Tennant Metz. Radar (H2X) Navigator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 7 July 1951
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Sergeant Stanley Hulewicz. Tail Gunner, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. A machinist when he enlisted in the Air Corps in August 1943, Stanley Hulewicz was sent overseas in 1944 and was assigned to the 44th Bomb Group/506th Bomb Squadron in Shipdham
Died 8 August 1951
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Staff Sergeant Tony Cardella. Crew Chief, 4th Fighter Group.
Died 1 October 1951
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