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Sgt Robert Leland Luke
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Sgt Robert Leland Luke Veteran

Birth
Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
26 Apr 1944 (aged 35)
Monument
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
Plot
Courts of the Missing
Memorial ID
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Onboard the B-24D Liberator #41-23848 when they crashed and were reported missing about 100 miles east of Russia in the North Pacific, somewhere between Shemya, Alaska in the Aleutians and the Kurile Islands.

The crew was reported missing and ultimately declared dead on April 26, 1944. Recorded circumstances attributed to: Missing in action or lost at sea.
Incident location: Kuril Islands, Pacific Ocean. The crew is memorialized at Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii. This is an American Battle Monuments Commission location. Also mentioned at Memorial to the Missing in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

15 casualties related to the #41-23848 incident on April 26, 1944 listed:

Sgt Pedro Beltran
SSGT Charley Odell Bertrand
2Lt William Forbes Dieterich
2Lt William Gallagher Jr
Sgt Jacob I Hedrick Jr
Sgt Frank H Kobus
2LT Wilfred Walter Larsen
2LT Kenneth F Lechert
Sgt Robert Leland Luke
CAPT Edward Philip McDermott
2Lt James Thomas Moseley Jr
Pfc Raymond Leavitt Norris Jr
Sgt LeRoy D Thompson
Sgt Joseph J White
2LT Max Eugene York
Onboard the B-24D Liberator #41-23848 when they crashed and were reported missing about 100 miles east of Russia in the North Pacific, somewhere between Shemya, Alaska in the Aleutians and the Kurile Islands.

The crew was reported missing and ultimately declared dead on April 26, 1944. Recorded circumstances attributed to: Missing in action or lost at sea.
Incident location: Kuril Islands, Pacific Ocean. The crew is memorialized at Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii. This is an American Battle Monuments Commission location. Also mentioned at Memorial to the Missing in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

15 casualties related to the #41-23848 incident on April 26, 1944 listed:

Sgt Pedro Beltran
SSGT Charley Odell Bertrand
2Lt William Forbes Dieterich
2Lt William Gallagher Jr
Sgt Jacob I Hedrick Jr
Sgt Frank H Kobus
2LT Wilfred Walter Larsen
2LT Kenneth F Lechert
Sgt Robert Leland Luke
CAPT Edward Philip McDermott
2Lt James Thomas Moseley Jr
Pfc Raymond Leavitt Norris Jr
Sgt LeRoy D Thompson
Sgt Joseph J White
2LT Max Eugene York

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Missouri.


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