Sgt. Conley was killed in action on 9-12-1944 while serving as a waist gunner on a B-17 Aircraft with the Bomber Squadron of the 457th Bomber Group, Heavy flying out of Horsham St. Faith, England with Colonel James Isbell as Commander.
He is the son of Mr. Charles & Mrs. Myrtle Conley of 210 Broadway in Pekin, Illinois, and is 1943 graduate of Pekin H.S., and enlisted a short time later, and did his training at the Aerial Gunner's School at Las Vegas, Nevada, and was in England by June of 1944.
Besides his parents, he leaves one brother, Sgt. Howard Conley of the Army, and three sisters, Miss Frances, Miss Erma Jane, and Miss Mary Louise, all at home. And foremost, Sgt. Conley's fiancee, Miss Bertha Lucille Watson.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
He is the son of Mr. Charles & Mrs. Myrtle Conley of 210 Broadway in Pekin, Illinois, and is 1943 graduate of Pekin H.S., and enlisted a short time later, and did his training at the Aerial Gunner's School at Las Vegas, Nevada, and was in England by June of 1944.
Besides his parents, he leaves one brother, Sgt. Howard Conley of the Army, and three sisters, Miss Frances, Miss Erma Jane, and Miss Mary Louise, all at home. And foremost, Sgt. Conley's fiancee, Miss Bertha Lucille Watson.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
Sgt. Conley was killed in action on 9-12-1944 while serving as a waist gunner on a B-17 Aircraft with the Bomber Squadron of the 457th Bomber Group, Heavy flying out of Horsham St. Faith, England with Colonel James Isbell as Commander.
He is the son of Mr. Charles & Mrs. Myrtle Conley of 210 Broadway in Pekin, Illinois, and is 1943 graduate of Pekin H.S., and enlisted a short time later, and did his training at the Aerial Gunner's School at Las Vegas, Nevada, and was in England by June of 1944.
Besides his parents, he leaves one brother, Sgt. Howard Conley of the Army, and three sisters, Miss Frances, Miss Erma Jane, and Miss Mary Louise, all at home. And foremost, Sgt. Conley's fiancee, Miss Bertha Lucille Watson.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
He is the son of Mr. Charles & Mrs. Myrtle Conley of 210 Broadway in Pekin, Illinois, and is 1943 graduate of Pekin H.S., and enlisted a short time later, and did his training at the Aerial Gunner's School at Las Vegas, Nevada, and was in England by June of 1944.
Besides his parents, he leaves one brother, Sgt. Howard Conley of the Army, and three sisters, Miss Frances, Miss Erma Jane, and Miss Mary Louise, all at home. And foremost, Sgt. Conley's fiancee, Miss Bertha Lucille Watson.
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Entered the service from Illinois.
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SGT, 751 AAF BOMB SQ, 457 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
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