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SGT William E. Price

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SGT William E. Price Veteran

Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Death
6 Jun 1944 (aged 22)
Corfe Castle, Purbeck District, Dorset, England
Burial
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section O Site 12
Memorial ID
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Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces 7th Bomber Squadron, 34th Bomber Group, Heavy.

He entered the service from Oklahoma.

He was killed on D-Day-Liberation of North West Europe.The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time (GMT+2).

B-24H 41-28838 E/C Misery Agent
Mission number 10 Took off at 0234 hours-June 6, 1944 and flew position 1-3 in 2nd Squadron carrying twelve 500 lb bombs but these were not dropped. It ran out of fuel and crashed and burned with wheels up in the Olde Woode at Corfe Castle near the English south coast killing all 9 on board. There were no airfields in the area.
Missing Air Crew Report reports location as Studland Battle Training Area, which is five miles south-east of Wareham.
Second Lieutenant Herman M Doell
(Pilot)Service # O-687561
Second Lieutenant Lewis A Duncan
(CP) Service # O-700422
Staff Sergeant Vincent C Drozdek(NG) Service # 36648028
Staff Sergeant Alvin T Rainey(R)
Second Lieutenant Robert K "Bob" Swarthout

The above are interred at Cambridge.

The remains of the following were repatriated to USA.

Staff Sergeant William De Valera Curtin (E) 39038488 18137983
Staff Sergeant Jerome M Helget(BT)
Sergeant Arthur Stancati (Tail Gunner) 15342096

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #18109226

William E. Price is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Gregg County, Texas.
Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces 7th Bomber Squadron, 34th Bomber Group, Heavy.

He entered the service from Oklahoma.

He was killed on D-Day-Liberation of North West Europe.The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am British Double Summer Time (GMT+2).

B-24H 41-28838 E/C Misery Agent
Mission number 10 Took off at 0234 hours-June 6, 1944 and flew position 1-3 in 2nd Squadron carrying twelve 500 lb bombs but these were not dropped. It ran out of fuel and crashed and burned with wheels up in the Olde Woode at Corfe Castle near the English south coast killing all 9 on board. There were no airfields in the area.
Missing Air Crew Report reports location as Studland Battle Training Area, which is five miles south-east of Wareham.
Second Lieutenant Herman M Doell
(Pilot)Service # O-687561
Second Lieutenant Lewis A Duncan
(CP) Service # O-700422
Staff Sergeant Vincent C Drozdek(NG) Service # 36648028
Staff Sergeant Alvin T Rainey(R)
Second Lieutenant Robert K "Bob" Swarthout

The above are interred at Cambridge.

The remains of the following were repatriated to USA.

Staff Sergeant William De Valera Curtin (E) 39038488 18137983
Staff Sergeant Jerome M Helget(BT)
Sergeant Arthur Stancati (Tail Gunner) 15342096

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #18109226

William E. Price is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Gregg County, Texas.

Inscription

SGT 7 BOMB SQ 34 BOMB GP (H)



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