While on a training flight out of the Pocatello Army Airfield, he was killed when the bomber struck a mountainside thirteen miles south of Dubois, Wyoming.
All eleven aboard perished:
2nd Lt. Alan F Kirschner, pilot
2nd Lt. David H MacGowan(Instr. pilot)
2nd Lt. Royce O Davis
2nd Lt. Lyle P Schroeer
T/Sgt. Vernon Leroy Warner
Sgt. Joseph Baiocchi
S/Sgt. Jesse P Bradshaw
S/Sgt. Granville W Hampton
S/Sgt. William G. Parkey
S/Sgt. Herbert W Roberts
S/Sgt. Chester W Stock
In 1989, a Wyoming couple, packing deep into the Wind River Mountains, discovered the B-24 wreck site. They found Staff Sergeant Parkey's dog tags.
Forty-six years after the accident, they were able to return the tags to his younger brother, Sherman, who was age nine when his big brother died.
All eleven aboard perished:
2nd Lt. Alan F Kirschner, pilot
2nd Lt. David H MacGowan(Instr. pilot)
2nd Lt. Royce O Davis
2nd Lt. Lyle P Schroeer
T/Sgt. Vernon Leroy Warner
Sgt. Joseph Baiocchi
S/Sgt. Jesse P Bradshaw
S/Sgt. Granville W Hampton
S/Sgt. William G. Parkey
S/Sgt. Herbert W Roberts
S/Sgt. Chester W Stock
In 1989, a Wyoming couple, packing deep into the Wind River Mountains, discovered the B-24 wreck site. They found Staff Sergeant Parkey's dog tags.
Forty-six years after the accident, they were able to return the tags to his younger brother, Sherman, who was age nine when his big brother died.
While on a training flight out of the Pocatello Army Airfield, he was killed when the bomber struck a mountainside thirteen miles south of Dubois, Wyoming.
All eleven aboard perished:
2nd Lt. Alan F Kirschner, pilot
2nd Lt. David H MacGowan(Instr. pilot)
2nd Lt. Royce O Davis
2nd Lt. Lyle P Schroeer
T/Sgt. Vernon Leroy Warner
Sgt. Joseph Baiocchi
S/Sgt. Jesse P Bradshaw
S/Sgt. Granville W Hampton
S/Sgt. William G. Parkey
S/Sgt. Herbert W Roberts
S/Sgt. Chester W Stock
In 1989, a Wyoming couple, packing deep into the Wind River Mountains, discovered the B-24 wreck site. They found Staff Sergeant Parkey's dog tags.
Forty-six years after the accident, they were able to return the tags to his younger brother, Sherman, who was age nine when his big brother died.
All eleven aboard perished:
2nd Lt. Alan F Kirschner, pilot
2nd Lt. David H MacGowan(Instr. pilot)
2nd Lt. Royce O Davis
2nd Lt. Lyle P Schroeer
T/Sgt. Vernon Leroy Warner
Sgt. Joseph Baiocchi
S/Sgt. Jesse P Bradshaw
S/Sgt. Granville W Hampton
S/Sgt. William G. Parkey
S/Sgt. Herbert W Roberts
S/Sgt. Chester W Stock
In 1989, a Wyoming couple, packing deep into the Wind River Mountains, discovered the B-24 wreck site. They found Staff Sergeant Parkey's dog tags.
Forty-six years after the accident, they were able to return the tags to his younger brother, Sherman, who was age nine when his big brother died.
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