SGT Hobert Odell Wright
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SGT Hobert Odell Wright

Birth
Bell County, Kentucky, USA
Death
14 Mar 1944 (aged 22)
Piombino, Provincia di Livorno, Toscana, Italy
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Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky, USA
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Attended Black Star High School, Alva, Harlan County, Kentucky; graduated in 1941.

One of 45 enrolled in the freshman class in 1937 and was elected Secretary of the class; was a reporter for the school paper for the December 1937 issue; and played the Chancellor in the school production of "The Knave of Hearts".

As a sophomore, played football, position "HB", on the 1938 team.

Upon graduation from high school, he worked on the L&N Railroad before the war.

For the war effort he heeded the call of his country and trained at Biloxi, MS as a Radio Operator and then on the Florida for gunnery school as a tail gunner in the B-25s.

Lost at sea off the coast of Italy during WW II. Eighteen B-25s, each loaded with six-500 pound bombs, were to bomb the Italian port of Piombino. They were escorted by 19 Spitfire fighters. His was one of the first planes to go down and his body was never recovered.


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Attended Black Star High School, Alva, Harlan County, Kentucky; graduated in 1941.

One of 45 enrolled in the freshman class in 1937 and was elected Secretary of the class; was a reporter for the school paper for the December 1937 issue; and played the Chancellor in the school production of "The Knave of Hearts".

As a sophomore, played football, position "HB", on the 1938 team.

Upon graduation from high school, he worked on the L&N Railroad before the war.

For the war effort he heeded the call of his country and trained at Biloxi, MS as a Radio Operator and then on the Florida for gunnery school as a tail gunner in the B-25s.

Lost at sea off the coast of Italy during WW II. Eighteen B-25s, each loaded with six-500 pound bombs, were to bomb the Italian port of Piombino. They were escorted by 19 Spitfire fighters. His was one of the first planes to go down and his body was never recovered.

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Located behind the church, around the hill to the right, and at the top of a family fenced in area. Next to his parents' double stone.

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