Hometown: Michigan
Squadron: 567th BS 389th Bomb Group
Service# 36586506
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 2/Lt Jack Eley, POW Montgomery, AL
Target:Merseburg
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#: 5387
Date Lost: 28-May-44
Serial Number: 42-110074
Aircraft Model B-24J-130-CO
Aircraft Letter:P-
Aircraft Name: SATAN'S MATE
Location:
Cause: MECH 6 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: Ditched after mechanical problems.
Sgt. La course appears on Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery
Neupre, Belgium as KIA May 29 1945 however the USAAF personnel and official MACR report indicates his death and mission as May 28 1944. Most likely this is the correct date.
Sgt La Course body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of the "SATAN'S MATE"" Crew. Click here
Hometown: Michigan
Squadron: 567th BS 389th Bomb Group
Service# 36586506
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
Pilot 2/Lt Jack Eley, POW Montgomery, AL
Target:Merseburg
Missing Air Crew Report Details
USAAF MACR#: 5387
Date Lost: 28-May-44
Serial Number: 42-110074
Aircraft Model B-24J-130-CO
Aircraft Letter:P-
Aircraft Name: SATAN'S MATE
Location:
Cause: MECH 6 KIA, 3 POW
Notes: Ditched after mechanical problems.
Sgt. La course appears on Tablets of the Missing at Ardennes American Cemetery
Neupre, Belgium as KIA May 29 1945 however the USAAF personnel and official MACR report indicates his death and mission as May 28 1944. Most likely this is the correct date.
Sgt La Course body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of the "SATAN'S MATE"" Crew. Click here
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Michigan.
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