1Lt Douglas Lee Red
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1Lt Douglas Lee Red Veteran

Birth
District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Death
25 Dec 1944 (aged 21)
Germany
Monument
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
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Douglas Lee Red, Military ID: 0-822265 , Entered the Service from Pennsylania. Rank: First Lieutenant, Sevice: U.S. Army Air Forces, 436th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, Award: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters.
Memorialized at: Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England.
Douglas record reads he died 26 December 1945, but he really died 25 December 1944. We have a family letter his father wrote on December 25, 1944, and when he wrote the letter he hadn't got the word about his son, but it was soon afterwards he heard his son had been shot down.
Douglas Lee Red, Military ID: 0-822265 , Entered the Service from Pennsylania. Rank: First Lieutenant, Sevice: U.S. Army Air Forces, 436th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, Award: Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters.
Memorialized at: Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England.
Douglas record reads he died 26 December 1945, but he really died 25 December 1944. We have a family letter his father wrote on December 25, 1944, and when he wrote the letter he hadn't got the word about his son, but it was soon afterwards he heard his son had been shot down.

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Pennsylvania.