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Captain Wiley Glass. Intelligence, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers.
Died 19 January 1971
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Private Warren Jorgenson. Military Occupation Specialty 383-Fire Fighter, 384th Bomb Group. Transferred in grade from the 2001st Engineer Aviation Fire Fighting Platoon to the 2023rd Engineer Aviation Fire Fighting Platoon on AAF Station 106 Special Order
Died 1 May 1971
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Technical Sergeant James Greer. Military Occupation specialty 757-Radio Operator/Mechanic/Gunner, 384th Bomb Group.
Died 23 May 1971
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Captain Vernon Barto. Fighter Pilot, 339th Fighter Group. Assigned to 504FS, 339FG, 8AF USAAF. Completed tour of duty (ETD). Awards: DFC, WWII Victory, EAME, Korean and UN medals. Postwar: Remained in USAF, serving in Korea and rising to Captain.
Died 5 July 1971
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Captain Lawrence Majercin. , .
Died 14 July 1971
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First Lieutenant Warren Allen. Pilot, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 16 July 1971
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Staff Sergeant John Welch. Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer, 306th Bomb Group The Reich Wreckers. He flew on Cecil McKinney crew. Reported to the ETO on 12 Apr 1944. He was critically wounded on the mission of 27 Apr 1944 and transferred to hospital o
Died 21 July 1971
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) W.P. Follis. Flight Engineer, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 3 August 1971
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Margaret Bourke-White. , . American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female phot
Died 27 August 1971
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Captain Grover Hall. Public Relations Officer, 4th Fighter Group. Grover Hall was educated at Montgomery public school in Alabama. After working seven years at 'Advertiser', doing reporting and writing, he joined the Army in 1942. He contribu
Died 24 September 1971
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Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) James Blakney. Ground Crew Aircraft Mechanic, 466th Bomb Group. Was on the original orders activating the 466th BG on 22 August 1943
Died 2 October 1971
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Sergeant August Ackerman. Military Occupation Specialty 867 - Radar Mechanic, Bombardment, 482nd Bomb Group. Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group from the 482nd Bomb Group on AAF Station 106 SO #147 dated 25 July 1944.
Died 20 October 1971
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Flight Officer Arthur Callahan. Co-Pilot, 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs. 1 Oct 43 shot down by fighters in B-24D 42-72877 while on detachment to the 9th AF. Crew bailed out over Austria with 4 Killed in Action (KIA) and 6 Prisoner of War (POW)s. P
Died 30 November 1971
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Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) Richard Sponaugle. Radio Operator, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 5 December 1971
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First Lieutenant Henry Ayres. Pilot, 4th Fighter Group. Joined RAFVR, assigned to 133S, transferred to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF Shot down by fighters on 28 Jul 43 in P-47 41-6238 near Gouda, Holland. Ayres was injured and taken to hospital. Prisoner of War (
Died 24 December 1971
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Technical Sergeant Robert Carlson. Top Turret Gunner, 452nd Bomb Group. Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-17 #42-399974 'Punchboard'. Prisoner of War (POW). POW
Died 24 December 1971
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Captain Mahlon Mattison. Bombardier - Squadron Bombardier, 466th Bomb Group.
Died 31 December 1971
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