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Capt Byron Leo Bostick Veteran

Birth: 3 Nov 1919
Texas, USA
Death: 21 Aug 1944 (aged 24)
Otero County, New Mexico, USA
Cenotaph: Fort Bliss National Cemetery

El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 31.8206324, Longitude: -106.4221031
Plot: SECTION PD SITE 10C
Memorial ID: 390303 View Source

Army Service No. (ASN): O-433785

Captain Bostick perished when U.S. Army Air Corps YB-29 Superfortress #41-36966
flew into ground 25 miles northeast of Alamogordo Army Airfield, New Mexico.

Ten crewmembers were killed.

This memorial is a cenotaph; Byron Bostick is buried in Moody Cemetery, Moody, Texas.

The air crew killed were:
Byron L Bostick , pilot
James J Higgins, Jr
Meyer S Hodiss
Jerome F Muller
Thomas A Boyle
John R Uczen
Camille P Parenteau
Benjamin E Smith
Conda M Smith
Irwin Handelman

Army Service No. (ASN): O-433785

Captain Bostick perished when U.S. Army Air Corps YB-29 Superfortress #41-36966
flew into ground 25 miles northeast of Alamogordo Army Airfield, New Mexico.

Ten crewmembers were killed.

This memorial is a cenotaph; Byron Bostick is buried in Moody Cemetery, Moody, Texas.

The air crew killed were:
Byron L Bostick , pilot
James J Higgins, Jr
Meyer S Hodiss
Jerome F Muller
Thomas A Boyle
John R Uczen
Camille P Parenteau
Benjamin E Smith
Conda M Smith
Irwin Handelman

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CAPT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II

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Maintained by: James Durham
Originally Created by: US Veterans Affairs Office
Added: Feb 25, 2000
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/390303/byron_leo-bostick: accessed ), memorial page for Capt Byron Leo Bostick (3 Nov 1919–21 Aug 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 390303, citing Fort Bliss National Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA; Maintained by James Durham (contributor 46994633).

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