A B-24 tail gunner and father of a young son whose plane was hit over France
Category: U.S. Army Air Forces
Staff Sergeant Hermus J. Hastings (1923–1944)
His B-24 disappeared near Truk shortly before he would have received the Distinguished Flying Cross
Sergeant Paul E. Hayden (1911–1943)
Trained in aircraft maintenance, he was traveling to the China Burma India Theater when caught up in an infamous troop ship disaster
Sergeant Amedeo J. Vincenti (1909–1945)
A flight engineer who lost his life when his plane ditched returning from an antishipping strike
Flight Officer Theodore E. Hearne (1920–1944)
The proudest moment of this radar observer’s military career turned to tragedy moments later
Corporal James A. Moore (1921–1944)
A DuPont employee turned communications clerk lost in a tragic accident in England
Corporal Joseph M. Vignola (1920–1944)
A shipyard worker and father turned airplane mechanic lost in a little-known tragedy in the Mediterranean
Staff Sergeant Charles H. Horton (1916–1944)
An innocuous scientific inquiry about seaweed led to the tragic disappearence of two men on a remote island in the Atlantic
2nd Lieutenant Edward W. Ruyter (1922–1944)
When a bombardier fell from a crippled B-24, a Czech town came together to honor him: “You died-- but in our hearts you live!”
Technician 4th Grade Isiah Grubbs (1914–1943)
An N.C.O. in an all-black aviation engineer unit lost in a little known disaster at sea in the Pacific
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