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2LT David Arends

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2LT David Arends

Birth
Death
12 Jan 1944 (aged 24)
Otero County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
Fall River Mills, Shasta County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.0130954, Longitude: -121.4331736
Memorial ID
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Second Lieutenant Arends served with the
330th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Biggs
Field, El Paso, Texas.

He was one of seven airmen killed in the line
of duty when B-24D Liberator #42-72887
was crash landed, due to a mechanical failure,
30 miles north of the airbase, but on the
New Mexico side of the state line.


The other crew members who perished were:

2nd Lt. Donald E Hermo
Flt. Off. John B Friess
2nd Lt. Alfonse J Gravel
2nd Lt. Lawrence Yelowitz
Sgt. John Brightman
Sgt. Roy F Thompson


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Second Lieutenant Arends served with the
330th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Biggs
Field, El Paso, Texas.

He was one of seven airmen killed in the line
of duty when B-24D Liberator #42-72887
was crash landed, due to a mechanical failure,
30 miles north of the airbase, but on the
New Mexico side of the state line.


The other crew members who perished were:

2nd Lt. Donald E Hermo
Flt. Off. John B Friess
2nd Lt. Alfonse J Gravel
2nd Lt. Lawrence Yelowitz
Sgt. John Brightman
Sgt. Roy F Thompson


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Inscription

CALIFORNIA
2ND LIEUT AIR CORPS

Gravesite Details

ASN O-854407



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