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Arthur George Hover Jr.

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Arthur George Hover Jr. Veteran

Birth
Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, USA
Death
11 Oct 1943 (aged 21)
Sicilia, Italy
Burial
Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Kansas
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.
Kansas
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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