SSG Webb has been on the MIA/KIA list for 68 years and his remains have been recently discovered and are being repatriated to his Family in Wetumka. Church Services will be at First Methodist Church, 205 E Broadway, Wetumka, Okla. (time and date TBD) Services will be by Williamson Spradin Funeral Home, 221 S. Main St. Wetumka, Okla. (time and date TBD) Internment will follow in Wetumka Cemetery. Honor Guard will be provided. SSG Webb's only surviving sister passed away several years ago and left her quest to find her Beloved Brother to her Daughter, Teresa of Wetumka. Teresa has recently been contacted about the location of her Uncle Glenn Webb and is at this time awaiting the arrival of his remains that are currently in Hawaii. SSG Webb was the Co-Pilot of the C-47-DL "Maxine", Tail #VH-CFL that crashed in New Guinea on October 16, 1942 while dropping supplies to ground troops. Church services for SSgt. Webb will be held at the First Methodist Church, 205 E Broadway, Wetumka, Okla. on Friday Nov. 19th, 2010 at 1:00pm.
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Nearly 70 years after an Oklahoma soldier died in action, his remains will be laid to rest Wednesday. Staff Sgt. Glenn E. Webb of Wetumka, in Hughes County, was killed when his plane crashed in 1942 in New Guinea. He was 20. His remains were positively identified recently and will be laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Webb's C-47C Skytrain went down Oct. 16, 1942, killing him, 2nd Lt. Wilson Carter of Jackson, Miss., and Master Sgt. Donald Mackey of Chambersburg, Pa. The three will be buried in a single casket that represents the entire crew, a news release from the Department of Defense states. The group was on an air-drop mission to deliver supplies to U.S. troops when the aircraft crashed in a mountainous area near Kagi, New Guinea. The men were buried by an Australian Army patrol in the area. Two years later, personnel from the Army Graves Registration unit moved the remains of Carter and Mackey to a nearby U.S. cemetery, but they could not find Webb's remains. In 1982, villagers notified U.S. officials of a plane crash in the area. Human remains were recovered there, and while the aircraft's tail number matched that of Webb's, the remains could not be positively identified. Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory later used dental analysis and DNA matching to victim's families to identify their remains. More than 400,000 Americans were killed in World War II. Approximately 16 million served in the war. More than 73,000 service members remain unaccounted for from the war.
(The Oklahoman, Wednesday, 16 November 2011, page 2A)
[Contributed by Lindsay Brock]
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Nearly 70 years after an Oklahoma soldier died in action, his remains will be laid to rest Wednesday. Staff Sgt. Glenn E. Webb of Wetumka, in Hughes County, was killed when his plane crashed in 1942 in New Guinea. He was 20. His remains were positively identified recently and will be laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Webb's C-47C Skytrain went down Oct. 16, 1942, killing him, 2nd Lt. Wilson Carter of Jackson, Miss., and Master Sgt. Donald Mackey of Chambersburg, Pa. The three will be buried in a single casket that represents the entire crew, a news release from the Department of Defense states. The group was on an air-drop mission to deliver supplies to U.S. troops when the aircraft crashed in a mountainous area near Kagi, New Guinea. The men were buried by an Australian Army patrol in the area. Two years later, personnel from the Army Graves Registration unit moved the remains of Carter and Mackey to a nearby U.S. cemetery, but they could not find Webb's remains. In 1982, villagers notified U.S. officials of a plane crash in the area. Human remains were recovered there, and while the aircraft's tail number matched that of Webb's, the remains could not be positively identified. Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory later used dental analysis and DNA matching to victim's families to identify their remains. More than 400,000 Americans were killed in World War II. Approximately 16 million served in the war. More than 73,000 service members remain unaccounted for from the war.
(The Oklahoman, Wednesday, 16 November 2011, page 2A)
[Contributed by Lindsay Brock]
SSG Webb has been on the MIA/KIA list for 68 years and his remains have been recently discovered and are being repatriated to his Family in Wetumka. Church Services will be at First Methodist Church, 205 E Broadway, Wetumka, Okla. (time and date TBD) Services will be by Williamson Spradin Funeral Home, 221 S. Main St. Wetumka, Okla. (time and date TBD) Internment will follow in Wetumka Cemetery. Honor Guard will be provided. SSG Webb's only surviving sister passed away several years ago and left her quest to find her Beloved Brother to her Daughter, Teresa of Wetumka. Teresa has recently been contacted about the location of her Uncle Glenn Webb and is at this time awaiting the arrival of his remains that are currently in Hawaii. SSG Webb was the Co-Pilot of the C-47-DL "Maxine", Tail #VH-CFL that crashed in New Guinea on October 16, 1942 while dropping supplies to ground troops. Church services for SSgt. Webb will be held at the First Methodist Church, 205 E Broadway, Wetumka, Okla. on Friday Nov. 19th, 2010 at 1:00pm.
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Nearly 70 years after an Oklahoma soldier died in action, his remains will be laid to rest Wednesday. Staff Sgt. Glenn E. Webb of Wetumka, in Hughes County, was killed when his plane crashed in 1942 in New Guinea. He was 20. His remains were positively identified recently and will be laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Webb's C-47C Skytrain went down Oct. 16, 1942, killing him, 2nd Lt. Wilson Carter of Jackson, Miss., and Master Sgt. Donald Mackey of Chambersburg, Pa. The three will be buried in a single casket that represents the entire crew, a news release from the Department of Defense states. The group was on an air-drop mission to deliver supplies to U.S. troops when the aircraft crashed in a mountainous area near Kagi, New Guinea. The men were buried by an Australian Army patrol in the area. Two years later, personnel from the Army Graves Registration unit moved the remains of Carter and Mackey to a nearby U.S. cemetery, but they could not find Webb's remains. In 1982, villagers notified U.S. officials of a plane crash in the area. Human remains were recovered there, and while the aircraft's tail number matched that of Webb's, the remains could not be positively identified. Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory later used dental analysis and DNA matching to victim's families to identify their remains. More than 400,000 Americans were killed in World War II. Approximately 16 million served in the war. More than 73,000 service members remain unaccounted for from the war.
(The Oklahoman, Wednesday, 16 November 2011, page 2A)
[Contributed by Lindsay Brock]
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Nearly 70 years after an Oklahoma soldier died in action, his remains will be laid to rest Wednesday. Staff Sgt. Glenn E. Webb of Wetumka, in Hughes County, was killed when his plane crashed in 1942 in New Guinea. He was 20. His remains were positively identified recently and will be laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Webb's C-47C Skytrain went down Oct. 16, 1942, killing him, 2nd Lt. Wilson Carter of Jackson, Miss., and Master Sgt. Donald Mackey of Chambersburg, Pa. The three will be buried in a single casket that represents the entire crew, a news release from the Department of Defense states. The group was on an air-drop mission to deliver supplies to U.S. troops when the aircraft crashed in a mountainous area near Kagi, New Guinea. The men were buried by an Australian Army patrol in the area. Two years later, personnel from the Army Graves Registration unit moved the remains of Carter and Mackey to a nearby U.S. cemetery, but they could not find Webb's remains. In 1982, villagers notified U.S. officials of a plane crash in the area. Human remains were recovered there, and while the aircraft's tail number matched that of Webb's, the remains could not be positively identified. Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory later used dental analysis and DNA matching to victim's families to identify their remains. More than 400,000 Americans were killed in World War II. Approximately 16 million served in the war. More than 73,000 service members remain unaccounted for from the war.
(The Oklahoman, Wednesday, 16 November 2011, page 2A)
[Contributed by Lindsay Brock]
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