Tech Sgt United States Army Air Forces World War II. His love of flying and his optimism endured even during the dark days of the war. He was a loving and gentle father who was grounded in faith and took his children to church every Sunday before his enlistment and attended services regularly afterward, regardless of where he was stationed. He was an intelligent man accepted for radar training the cutting-edge technology of its day.
He wrote to his daughters always using perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation, not something one might not expect from a man born in 1910 in San Antonio who had only a high school education.
They disappeared in November 1943, when their B-24 crashed in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. They had been on an armed reconnaissance mission over the Bismark Sea when they were told to shadow a convoy of Japanese ships and report back. Four hours later, crewmembers radioed saying they made three direct hits on the convoy and destroyed the target. It was their last radio contact.
A team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command received information in March 2002 from officials in Papua New Guinea about a crash site. An official turned over aircraft data plates, human remains and three ID tags found in Morobe Province. During excavation of the site the following year, the team recovered additional remains, identification tags and bracelets. The remains were taken to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, where specialists used mitochondrial DNA to help identify the remains. Dental analysis of the remains also confirmed their identification.
Technical Sgt. Raymond S. Cisneros, San Antonio, was buried in May with full military honors and also has a cenotaph in Arlington National Cemetery .
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Raymond served as a Technical Sergeant & Radio Operator on B-24D #42-40972, 63rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in Galveston County, Texas prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army on July 22, 1942 in Houston, Texas. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Cook and also as Divorced, with dependents.
Raymond was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-24, which took off from Dobodura Airfield on an armed reconnaissance mission to shadow a ten vessel convoy off Kavieng, crashed near the village of Imon, roughly 45 miles north of Lae, during the war.
His B-24D #42-40972, in their last message, reported "Three direct hits on a CL [Light Cruiser] or CA [Heavy Cruiser], 0.3005 15100E target destroyed".
He was awarded the Air Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart.
Entered the service from Texas.
Service ID: 38204263.
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Airmen who perished on B-24D #42-40972:
Armacost, Arthur C, III ~ 2nd Lt, Co-Pilot, OH
Cameron, William C ~ S/Sgt, CA
Cisneros, Raymond S ~ T/Sgt, Radio Operator, TX
Eppright, David R ~ 2nd Lt, MO
Feucht, Charles F ~ 2nd Lt, OH
Hafner, William M ~ 1st Lt, Pilot, VA
Hill, Alfred W ~ T/Sgt, TX
Lascelles, James G ~ T/Sgt, NY
Rozzell, Wilburn W ~ S/Sgt, OK
Bio & Crew Report by: Russ Pickett
Tech Sgt United States Army Air Forces World War II. His love of flying and his optimism endured even during the dark days of the war. He was a loving and gentle father who was grounded in faith and took his children to church every Sunday before his enlistment and attended services regularly afterward, regardless of where he was stationed. He was an intelligent man accepted for radar training the cutting-edge technology of its day.
He wrote to his daughters always using perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation, not something one might not expect from a man born in 1910 in San Antonio who had only a high school education.
They disappeared in November 1943, when their B-24 crashed in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. They had been on an armed reconnaissance mission over the Bismark Sea when they were told to shadow a convoy of Japanese ships and report back. Four hours later, crewmembers radioed saying they made three direct hits on the convoy and destroyed the target. It was their last radio contact.
A team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command received information in March 2002 from officials in Papua New Guinea about a crash site. An official turned over aircraft data plates, human remains and three ID tags found in Morobe Province. During excavation of the site the following year, the team recovered additional remains, identification tags and bracelets. The remains were taken to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, where specialists used mitochondrial DNA to help identify the remains. Dental analysis of the remains also confirmed their identification.
Technical Sgt. Raymond S. Cisneros, San Antonio, was buried in May with full military honors and also has a cenotaph in Arlington National Cemetery .
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Raymond served as a Technical Sergeant & Radio Operator on B-24D #42-40972, 63rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in Galveston County, Texas prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army on July 22, 1942 in Houston, Texas. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Cook and also as Divorced, with dependents.
Raymond was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-24, which took off from Dobodura Airfield on an armed reconnaissance mission to shadow a ten vessel convoy off Kavieng, crashed near the village of Imon, roughly 45 miles north of Lae, during the war.
His B-24D #42-40972, in their last message, reported "Three direct hits on a CL [Light Cruiser] or CA [Heavy Cruiser], 0.3005 15100E target destroyed".
He was awarded the Air Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart.
Entered the service from Texas.
Service ID: 38204263.
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Airmen who perished on B-24D #42-40972:
Armacost, Arthur C, III ~ 2nd Lt, Co-Pilot, OH
Cameron, William C ~ S/Sgt, CA
Cisneros, Raymond S ~ T/Sgt, Radio Operator, TX
Eppright, David R ~ 2nd Lt, MO
Feucht, Charles F ~ 2nd Lt, OH
Hafner, William M ~ 1st Lt, Pilot, VA
Hill, Alfred W ~ T/Sgt, TX
Lascelles, James G ~ T/Sgt, NY
Rozzell, Wilburn W ~ S/Sgt, OK
Bio & Crew Report by: Russ Pickett
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