*CENOTAPH. Radio Operator.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was a radio operator, flying on both B-17s and B-24s. On 15 April 1943, he and the rest of the crew flew two missions over Kiska Island. On the second mission, they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was a radio operator, flying on both B-17s and B-24s. On 15 April 1943, he and the rest of the crew flew two missions over Kiska Island. On the second mission, they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
*CENOTAPH. Radio Operator.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was a radio operator, flying on both B-17s and B-24s. On 15 April 1943, he and the rest of the crew flew two missions over Kiska Island. On the second mission, they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
He served in Alaska in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was a radio operator, flying on both B-17s and B-24s. On 15 April 1943, he and the rest of the crew flew two missions over Kiska Island. On the second mission, they successfully dropped their bombs but were then hit by AA fire which exploded through the bomb bay doors the plane burst into flames. The plane fell 10,000 feet into the ocean about three hundred yards East of North Head. Japanese guns strafed the burning wreck while it still floated. None of the crew survived and their bodies were never recovered. Each of the crewmen are memorialized on the "Tablets of the Missing" at the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl" in Hawaii.
He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
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ANGLIN GRADY W
T SGT - 28 BOMB GP(H) - TEXAS
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