2LT John Stanley Woravka

Birth	9 Oct 1916 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
Death	5 Apr 1943 (aged 26) Libya
Burial	North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
Plot	Listed on the Tablets of the Missing. {Cenopath Memorial-remains found 1960}
Memorial ID	56251498 · View Source

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John S. Woravka
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # O-73112
514th Bomber Squadron, 376th Bomber Group, Heavy
Entered the Service from: Ohio
Died: April, 1943
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at North Africa American Cemetery
Carthage, Tunisia

Remains recovered and buried at a private cemetery in Ohio.

The nine crew members of the B-24 Liberator bomber ‘Lady Be Good’ that crashed in the Libyan Desert in 1943 were:
Lady Be Good rew members:
1st Lieut. William J. Hatton, Pilot
Whitestone, New York;
2nd Lt. Robert Toner, Co-pilot
North Attelboro, Massachusetts;
2nd Lt. Dp Hays, Navigator
Kansas City, Missouri;
2nd Lt. John S. Woravka, Bombardier
Cleveland, Ohio;
T/Sgt. Harold S. Ripslinger, Flight Engineer
Saginaw, Michigan;
T/Sgt. Robert E. LaMotte, Radio Operator
Lake Linden, Michigan;
S/Sgt. Guy E. Shelley, Gunner/Asst Flight Engineer
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania;
Staff Sergeant Vernon L. Moore, Gunner/Asst Radio Operator
New Boston, Ohio;
S/Sgt. Samuel E. Adams, Gunner
Eureka, Illinois.

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Alex Woravka

1887–1946
Alexandria Kulesa Woravka

1889–1929

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Alex C Woravka

1914–1975
John Stanley Woravka

1916–1943
Joseph Woravka

1923–2010

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Added: 6 Aug 2010
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