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1Lt Gordon Lee Lyon Jr. Veteran

Birth: 27 Feb 1920
Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA
Death: 14 Feb 1943 (aged 22)
Bougainville, Central Bougainville District, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Monument: Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines Add to Map
Plot: Tablets of the Missing
Memorial ID: 56789537 View Source

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Gordon was piloting a plane that was shot down during the mission known as the "Saint Valentines Day Massacre"

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Entered the service from Mississippi.

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Elizabeth Wood McGregor

1922–2003 (m. 1942)

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Rupert Milton Lyon

1925–1959

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Gordon Lee Lyon

Lillian Beatrice McLeod Lyon

Elizabeth Wood McGregor

Rupert Milton Lyon

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