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SSGT John Lester Phillips

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SSGT John Lester Phillips Veteran

Birth
Death
4 Oct 1943 (aged 22)
Burial
Taylor, Lafayette County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Staff Sergeant Phillips served with the 805th
Bomb Squadron, 471st Bomb Group from the
Pueblo Army Air Base.

He was killed in service, in a crash of B-24E
Liberator #42-7290 at Gulfport Army Airfield,
Mississippi.

Airmen perished:

Flt. Off. Frank Edward Ickes, pilot
2nd Lt. Marlin G Hornberger
2nd Lt. Ben Newton Mathes, Jr
2nd Lt. Oscar Henry Schaefer
T/Sgt. Julius Klepeckas
S/Sgt. John L. Phillips
Sgt. John Henry Cleveland
Sgt. Marvin Meister, Jr
Sgt. Saul Peter Rosblatt
Staff Sergeant Phillips served with the 805th
Bomb Squadron, 471st Bomb Group from the
Pueblo Army Air Base.

He was killed in service, in a crash of B-24E
Liberator #42-7290 at Gulfport Army Airfield,
Mississippi.

Airmen perished:

Flt. Off. Frank Edward Ickes, pilot
2nd Lt. Marlin G Hornberger
2nd Lt. Ben Newton Mathes, Jr
2nd Lt. Oscar Henry Schaefer
T/Sgt. Julius Klepeckas
S/Sgt. John L. Phillips
Sgt. John Henry Cleveland
Sgt. Marvin Meister, Jr
Sgt. Saul Peter Rosblatt

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