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SSgt Leslie William Franz has another memorial in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines.
Les was a son of Alfred Augustus Franz & Margaret Elizabeth Smith.
He enlisted on 6 Jan 1942 at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as a Private in the U.S. Army Air Force. He served in the 388th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force in World War II.
He was a Crew Chief on a Douglas A-20 Havoc, "Little Doc". The A-20 only had a pilot and a gunner for combat missions, but sometimes the Crew Chief would lay on top of the radio compartment behind the pilot's shoulders for maintenance tests and when the planes were being ferried to a new base, as was the case on January 5th, 1945, when his plane "Little Doc" went down at sea about 70 miles from Sanasapor off the coast of New Guinea on the way from Biak to Tanauan.
SSgt Leslie William Franz has another memorial in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines.
Les was a son of Alfred Augustus Franz & Margaret Elizabeth Smith.
He enlisted on 6 Jan 1942 at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as a Private in the U.S. Army Air Force. He served in the 388th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force in World War II.
He was a Crew Chief on a Douglas A-20 Havoc, "Little Doc". The A-20 only had a pilot and a gunner for combat missions, but sometimes the Crew Chief would lay on top of the radio compartment behind the pilot's shoulders for maintenance tests and when the planes were being ferried to a new base, as was the case on January 5th, 1945, when his plane "Little Doc" went down at sea about 70 miles from Sanasapor off the coast of New Guinea on the way from Biak to Tanauan.
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SSgt Leslie William Franz has another memorial in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines.
Les was a son of Alfred Augustus Franz & Margaret Elizabeth Smith.
He enlisted on 6 Jan 1942 at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as a Private in the U.S. Army Air Force. He served in the 388th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force in World War II.
He was a Crew Chief on a Douglas A-20 Havoc, "Little Doc". The A-20 only had a pilot and a gunner for combat missions, but sometimes the Crew Chief would lay on top of the radio compartment behind the pilot's shoulders for maintenance tests and when the planes were being ferried to a new base, as was the case on January 5th, 1945, when his plane "Little Doc" went down at sea about 70 miles from Sanasapor off the coast of New Guinea on the way from Biak to Tanauan.
SSgt Leslie William Franz has another memorial in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines.
Les was a son of Alfred Augustus Franz & Margaret Elizabeth Smith.
He enlisted on 6 Jan 1942 at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts as a Private in the U.S. Army Air Force. He served in the 388th Bomb Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force in World War II.
He was a Crew Chief on a Douglas A-20 Havoc, "Little Doc". The A-20 only had a pilot and a gunner for combat missions, but sometimes the Crew Chief would lay on top of the radio compartment behind the pilot's shoulders for maintenance tests and when the planes were being ferried to a new base, as was the case on January 5th, 1945, when his plane "Little Doc" went down at sea about 70 miles from Sanasapor off the coast of New Guinea on the way from Biak to Tanauan.
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IN MEMORY OF
LESLIE WILLIAM FRANZ
S SGT US ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
JUN 13 1921 JAN 5 1945
LOST AT SEA
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