WORLD WAR II, died as a POW of Japan after being captured, he was on a B24 Liberator (Lonesome Lady) when it was shot down.
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"The crews of the USAAF B-24 bombers Lonesome Lady and Taloa flew their last mission together on 28 July, 1945–to sink the Japanese Fast Battleship BB Haruna. That same day and several days earlier, US Navy aviators were shot down while attacking the Haruna and other military ships of the Imperial Navy at anchor in the Seto Inland Sea of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, Japan. Twelve of these U.S. Servicemen were held as POWs in Hiroshima and died from their exposures to the blast, fires, and radiation from the atomic bomb that was dropped by the Enola Gay nine days later."
2nd Lt. Durden William Looper was one of the twelve POW's who perished. He was being detained in the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters, Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Source: https://hiroshima-pows.org/index-for-the-homepage#the-mission
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"The crews of the USAAF B-24 bombers Lonesome Lady and Taloa flew their last mission together on 28 July, 1945–to sink the Japanese Fast Battleship BB Haruna. That same day and several days earlier, US Navy aviators were shot down while attacking the Haruna and other military ships of the Imperial Navy at anchor in the Seto Inland Sea of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, Japan. Twelve of these U.S. Servicemen were held as POWs in Hiroshima and died from their exposures to the blast, fires, and radiation from the atomic bomb that was dropped by the Enola Gay nine days later."
2nd Lt. Durden William Looper was one of the twelve POW's who perished. He was being detained in the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters, Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Source: https://hiroshima-pows.org/index-for-the-homepage#the-mission
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WORLD WAR II, died as a POW of Japan after being captured, he was on a B24 Liberator (Lonesome Lady) when it was shot down.
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"The crews of the USAAF B-24 bombers Lonesome Lady and Taloa flew their last mission together on 28 July, 1945–to sink the Japanese Fast Battleship BB Haruna. That same day and several days earlier, US Navy aviators were shot down while attacking the Haruna and other military ships of the Imperial Navy at anchor in the Seto Inland Sea of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, Japan. Twelve of these U.S. Servicemen were held as POWs in Hiroshima and died from their exposures to the blast, fires, and radiation from the atomic bomb that was dropped by the Enola Gay nine days later."
2nd Lt. Durden William Looper was one of the twelve POW's who perished. He was being detained in the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters, Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Source: https://hiroshima-pows.org/index-for-the-homepage#the-mission
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"The crews of the USAAF B-24 bombers Lonesome Lady and Taloa flew their last mission together on 28 July, 1945–to sink the Japanese Fast Battleship BB Haruna. That same day and several days earlier, US Navy aviators were shot down while attacking the Haruna and other military ships of the Imperial Navy at anchor in the Seto Inland Sea of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, Japan. Twelve of these U.S. Servicemen were held as POWs in Hiroshima and died from their exposures to the blast, fires, and radiation from the atomic bomb that was dropped by the Enola Gay nine days later."
2nd Lt. Durden William Looper was one of the twelve POW's who perished. He was being detained in the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters, Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Source: https://hiroshima-pows.org/index-for-the-homepage#the-mission
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KILLED AUG. 6, 1945 AT HIROSHIMA IN W.W. II.
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