SSGT Jimmie Doyle

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SSGT Jimmie Doyle Veteran

Birth
McKinney, Collin County, Texas, USA
Death
1 Sep 1944 (aged 25)
Peleliu Island, Peleliu, Palau
Burial
Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Staff Sergrant
13th Air Corps
424th Bomber Squadron
307th Bomber Group
Serial #38346235

Son of Tom and Mamie Doyle.

Husband of Myrle Dean Wells. They were married on September 21, 1940 in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas.

Father of Wells Thomas "Tommy" Doyle.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced on April 17, 2009, that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, recoverd from a crash site between 2005 and 2008, have been identified as Staff Sergeant Jimmie Doyle. Sgt. Doyle's remains will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Staff Sergeant Jimmie Doyle was one of eleven men on board a B-24J Liberator bomber that was shot down while on a bombing reconnaissance mission of enemy targets over the island Republic of Palau. Three of the crewmen parachuted from the aircraft and died as prisoners of war of the Japanese. The other eight crewmen, including nose gunner Sgt. Doyle, went down with the aircraft into the sea.

Sgt. Doyle's body was escorted home to Lamesa from the Central Identification Lab in Hawaii by his grandson, U.S. Marine Captain Casey Doyle, an Iraq War veteran.

Please visit and honor Sgt. Doyle's fellow crew member, Sgt. Robert J. Stinson.
Staff Sergrant
13th Air Corps
424th Bomber Squadron
307th Bomber Group
Serial #38346235

Son of Tom and Mamie Doyle.

Husband of Myrle Dean Wells. They were married on September 21, 1940 in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas.

Father of Wells Thomas "Tommy" Doyle.

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced on April 17, 2009, that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, recoverd from a crash site between 2005 and 2008, have been identified as Staff Sergeant Jimmie Doyle. Sgt. Doyle's remains will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Staff Sergeant Jimmie Doyle was one of eleven men on board a B-24J Liberator bomber that was shot down while on a bombing reconnaissance mission of enemy targets over the island Republic of Palau. Three of the crewmen parachuted from the aircraft and died as prisoners of war of the Japanese. The other eight crewmen, including nose gunner Sgt. Doyle, went down with the aircraft into the sea.

Sgt. Doyle's body was escorted home to Lamesa from the Central Identification Lab in Hawaii by his grandson, U.S. Marine Captain Casey Doyle, an Iraq War veteran.

Please visit and honor Sgt. Doyle's fellow crew member, Sgt. Robert J. Stinson.