2nd Lieut 487 AAF BOMB SQ
World War II
Arthur G. Hover, Jr. (O-730913), 2nd Lieutenant, is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cowley County, Kansas...According to the War Diary of the 340th Bombardment Group, Lt. Hover was killed at Comiso airdrome, Sicily, when he was attempting to land a Messerschmitt 109, a captured German plane that he had put back into flying shape while off-duty...He perished when the plane flipped on its back while touching down.
2nd Lieut 487 AAF BOMB SQ
World War II
Arthur G. Hover, Jr. (O-730913), 2nd Lieutenant, is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Cowley County, Kansas...According to the War Diary of the 340th Bombardment Group, Lt. Hover was killed at Comiso airdrome, Sicily, when he was attempting to land a Messerschmitt 109, a captured German plane that he had put back into flying shape while off-duty...He perished when the plane flipped on its back while touching down.
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