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SSGT Donald Walter Rice

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SSGT Donald Walter Rice

Birth
New York, USA
Death
23 May 1943 (aged 21)
West Yellowstone, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Henrietta, Monroe County, New York, USA Add to Map
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C - 321 - 4
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Staff Sergeant Rice 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. Lawrence W. Medlin
S/Sgt. Donald W. Rice
S/Sgt. Leo E. Thorn
S/Sgt. Gilbert E. Underwood
Staff Sergeant Rice 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. Lawrence W. Medlin
S/Sgt. Donald W. Rice
S/Sgt. Leo E. Thorn
S/Sgt. Gilbert E. Underwood

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