Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Coleman D. and Effie Griffith Reed, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Actual burial memorializing FLT O Reed
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B-17G #42-37979 took off from Chelveston, England on a bombing mission over the Kiel, Germany Naval Yards. They were hit by German ground anti-aircraft fire and crashed near the Naval Yard in Kiel.
Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Coleman D. and Effie Griffith Reed, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Actual burial memorializing FLT O Reed
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B-17G #42-37979 took off from Chelveston, England on a bombing mission over the Kiel, Germany Naval Yards. They were hit by German ground anti-aircraft fire and crashed near the Naval Yard in Kiel.
Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
HOUISON G. REED
FLIGHT OFFICER
U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES
1920 - 1944
KILLED IN ACTION
IN THE AIR BATTLE
OVER KIEL GERMANY
MAY 22, 1944
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