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SSGT Alonzo Martin “Lon” Helm Jr.
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SSGT Alonzo Martin “Lon” Helm Jr. Veteran

Birth
Kansas, USA
Death
19 Oct 1943 (aged 21)
At Sea
Monument
Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia Add to Map
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #17015502
Enlistment Date: 10/17/1940 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri as Lon M. Helm
Entered the Service from: Kansas
1st Squadron, 8012th Composite Force

Lon M. Helm is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Crawford County, Kansas.

U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Atlantic Ocean on 19 Oct 1943.
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B-25C Mitchell #41-12631 lost while on anti-
submarine and convoy protection duties
near Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean.

Seven airmen were lost:

1Lt. James M Paschal Pilot
2Lt. James A. Burnett, Jr.
2Lt. Curtis P. Grooms
2Lt. Frank D. Robinson
SSgt. Lon M. Helm
Sgt. Merrill H. Blakewell
Sgt. Donald M. Jones
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***I would like to thank Dan Phelan Find A Grave ID 47709857 for adding his photos to this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #17015502
Enlistment Date: 10/17/1940 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri as Lon M. Helm
Entered the Service from: Kansas
1st Squadron, 8012th Composite Force

Lon M. Helm is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Crawford County, Kansas.

U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Atlantic Ocean on 19 Oct 1943.
~
B-25C Mitchell #41-12631 lost while on anti-
submarine and convoy protection duties
near Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean.

Seven airmen were lost:

1Lt. James M Paschal Pilot
2Lt. James A. Burnett, Jr.
2Lt. Curtis P. Grooms
2Lt. Frank D. Robinson
SSgt. Lon M. Helm
Sgt. Merrill H. Blakewell
Sgt. Donald M. Jones
~
***I would like to thank Dan Phelan Find A Grave ID 47709857 for adding his photos to this memorial***


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