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SSgt Victor LaCourse

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SSgt Victor LaCourse Veteran

Birth
Highland Park, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Death
29 May 1945 (aged 20)
Burial
Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium Add to Map
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Tablets of the Missing
Memorial ID
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S/Sgt. Victor La Course, KIA
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.

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Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Michigan.


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  • Maintained by: John Dowdy
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56359285/victor-lacourse: accessed ), memorial page for SSgt Victor LaCourse (4 Nov 1924–29 May 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56359285, citing Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium; Maintained by John Dowdy (contributor 47791572).