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Second Lieutenant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Texas. Originally listed as Missing in Action; officially declared dead on February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. On April 16, 1944, 2Lt Cooley was pilot of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned. In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and recovered the remains of the airmen aboard.
Raymond was buried at East Memorial Gardens in Texarkana, Arkansas when returned home and also is part of a group burial at at Arlington National Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Texas. Originally listed as Missing in Action; officially declared dead on February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. On April 16, 1944, 2Lt Cooley was pilot of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned. In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and recovered the remains of the airmen aboard.
Raymond was buried at East Memorial Gardens in Texarkana, Arkansas when returned home and also is part of a group burial at at Arlington National Cemetery.
CENOTAPH PLEASE READ BIO!
Second Lieutenant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Texas. Originally listed as Missing in Action; officially declared dead on February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. On April 16, 1944, 2Lt Cooley was pilot of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned. In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and recovered the remains of the airmen aboard.
Raymond was buried at East Memorial Gardens in Texarkana, Arkansas when returned home and also is part of a group burial at at Arlington National Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant, 403rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group (Heavy), U.S. Army Air Forces. Entered the service from Texas. Originally listed as Missing in Action; officially declared dead on February 25, 1946. Awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. On April 16, 1944, 2Lt Cooley was pilot of a B-24 Liberator, the "Here Tis", and was returning to the aerodrome at Nadzab, New Guinea after bombing enemy targets near Hollandia. The airplane altered course due to bad weather and never returned. In 2001 the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was notified by the U.S. Embassy in Papua New Guinea that the wreckage of a WW II bomber had been found. Early in 2002, a JPAC team found the wreckage of the plane and recovered the remains of the airmen aboard.
Raymond was buried at East Memorial Gardens in Texarkana, Arkansas when returned home and also is part of a group burial at at Arlington National Cemetery.
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