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SSGT Leo Ernest Thorn

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SSGT Leo Ernest Thorn

Birth
Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
Death
23 May 1943 (aged 30)
West Yellowstone, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Staff Sergeant Thorn was a crewmember aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-30260, serving with the 385th Bomb Group, 548th Bomb Squadron. While on a training flight out of Lewiston Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot Lt. Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crewmember escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.

The crew killed were:

2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson (pilot)
2nd Lt. George A Brast
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards
2nd Lt. James J. Highley
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski
S/Sgt. Willard McCune
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice
S/Sgt. Lawrence W. Medlin
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood
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Service ID: 18061074.
Staff Sergeant Thorn was a crewmember aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-30260, serving with the 385th Bomb Group, 548th Bomb Squadron. While on a training flight out of Lewiston Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot Lt. Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crewmember escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.

The crew killed were:

2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson (pilot)
2nd Lt. George A Brast
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards
2nd Lt. James J. Highley
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski
S/Sgt. Willard McCune
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice
S/Sgt. Lawrence W. Medlin
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood
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Service ID: 18061074.

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TEXAS STAFF SGT, 548 BOMB SQ AC
WORLD WAR II

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