U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-536811
Enlistment Date: 01/09/1942 with Service #32192790 at Camp Upton, Yaphank, N.Y.
Entered the Service from: New York
1st Air Commando Group
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Donald A. Lefevre is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cattaraugas County, New York.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Burma on 9 May 1944.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 1089 Ardsley Road, Schenectady, New York. Contact person listed as Mrs. Ira Deyo Le Fevre (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Schenectady, New York on 11/08/1917. Middle name listed as Andre. Hamilton College, Clinton, New York student as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzSQdEAM
On May 9, 1944, a combat glider, with at least two men on board (Le Fevre and FltOff Hadley Dwinell Baldwin), crashed while attempting to land at Blackpool Airstrip in Burma. The airstrip had been built behind enemy lines to support the Chindits, a special-operations group interdicting enemy lines of communication and supply. It is not known if the glider carried other occupants, but two U.S. Army Air Forces personnel died in the crash. Their remains were buried nearby, but the airstrip was soon abandoned, and later efforts to locate the grave proved futile.
First Lieutenant Donald A. Lefevre entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from New York and served in the 1st Air Commando Group. He was on board this glider when it was lost. His remains have not been recovered or identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Lefevre is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
***I would like to thank Kelly Find A Grave ID 49692200 for updating the birth date/location information on this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 01/09/1942 with Service #32192790 at Camp Upton, Yaphank, N.Y.
Entered the Service from: New York
1st Air Commando Group
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Donald A. Lefevre is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cattaraugas County, New York.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Burma on 9 May 1944.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 1089 Ardsley Road, Schenectady, New York. Contact person listed as Mrs. Ira Deyo Le Fevre (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Schenectady, New York on 11/08/1917. Middle name listed as Andre. Hamilton College, Clinton, New York student as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzSQdEAM
On May 9, 1944, a combat glider, with at least two men on board (Le Fevre and FltOff Hadley Dwinell Baldwin), crashed while attempting to land at Blackpool Airstrip in Burma. The airstrip had been built behind enemy lines to support the Chindits, a special-operations group interdicting enemy lines of communication and supply. It is not known if the glider carried other occupants, but two U.S. Army Air Forces personnel died in the crash. Their remains were buried nearby, but the airstrip was soon abandoned, and later efforts to locate the grave proved futile.
First Lieutenant Donald A. Lefevre entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from New York and served in the 1st Air Commando Group. He was on board this glider when it was lost. His remains have not been recovered or identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Lefevre is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
***I would like to thank Kelly Find A Grave ID 49692200 for updating the birth date/location information on this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-536811
Enlistment Date: 01/09/1942 with Service #32192790 at Camp Upton, Yaphank, N.Y.
Entered the Service from: New York
1st Air Commando Group
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Donald A. Lefevre is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cattaraugas County, New York.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Burma on 9 May 1944.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 1089 Ardsley Road, Schenectady, New York. Contact person listed as Mrs. Ira Deyo Le Fevre (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Schenectady, New York on 11/08/1917. Middle name listed as Andre. Hamilton College, Clinton, New York student as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzSQdEAM
On May 9, 1944, a combat glider, with at least two men on board (Le Fevre and FltOff Hadley Dwinell Baldwin), crashed while attempting to land at Blackpool Airstrip in Burma. The airstrip had been built behind enemy lines to support the Chindits, a special-operations group interdicting enemy lines of communication and supply. It is not known if the glider carried other occupants, but two U.S. Army Air Forces personnel died in the crash. Their remains were buried nearby, but the airstrip was soon abandoned, and later efforts to locate the grave proved futile.
First Lieutenant Donald A. Lefevre entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from New York and served in the 1st Air Commando Group. He was on board this glider when it was lost. His remains have not been recovered or identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Lefevre is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
***I would like to thank Kelly Find A Grave ID 49692200 for updating the birth date/location information on this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 01/09/1942 with Service #32192790 at Camp Upton, Yaphank, N.Y.
Entered the Service from: New York
1st Air Commando Group
Awards: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Donald A. Lefevre is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cattaraugas County, New York.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Burma on 9 May 1944.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 1089 Ardsley Road, Schenectady, New York. Contact person listed as Mrs. Ira Deyo Le Fevre (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Schenectady, New York on 11/08/1917. Middle name listed as Andre. Hamilton College, Clinton, New York student as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Information below gleaned from: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzSQdEAM
On May 9, 1944, a combat glider, with at least two men on board (Le Fevre and FltOff Hadley Dwinell Baldwin), crashed while attempting to land at Blackpool Airstrip in Burma. The airstrip had been built behind enemy lines to support the Chindits, a special-operations group interdicting enemy lines of communication and supply. It is not known if the glider carried other occupants, but two U.S. Army Air Forces personnel died in the crash. Their remains were buried nearby, but the airstrip was soon abandoned, and later efforts to locate the grave proved futile.
First Lieutenant Donald A. Lefevre entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from New York and served in the 1st Air Commando Group. He was on board this glider when it was lost. His remains have not been recovered or identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Lefevre is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
***I would like to thank Kelly Find A Grave ID 49692200 for updating the birth date/location information on this memorial***
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