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2LT William Wedrell Blalock

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2LT William Wedrell Blalock

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
30 May 1943 (aged 22)
Mendocino County, California, USA
Burial
Rochelle, Wilcox County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Second Lieutenant Blalock served with the 464th Bomb Squadron, 331st Bomb Group, Casper Army Air Base, Wyoming.

B-17F Flying Fortress #42-5318 departed Casper on the morning of May 30, 1943, on a training flight that took the crew to Marysville, California.

After a stop at Marysville, the bomber was to fly in a group of fifteen aircraft onward to Eugene, Oregon. However, the B-17 disappeared. It was presumed they were lost over the water of the Pacific. But the wreckage of the plane was found on August 10, 1943, fifteen miles northeast of Covelo, in Mendocino County, on Leech Lake Mountain.

Killed were:

2nd Lt. James O Westbury, O-735480, AL, Pilot
2nd Lt. William W Blalock, O-798056, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Joseph J Weitzel Jr, O-800796, PA, Navigator
2nd Lt. Ralph S Johnson, O-738983, MA, Bombardier
S/Sgt. Paul P Shaffer, 35382732, WV, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Ralph J Sicking, 35306920, OH, Radio Operator
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Lt. Blalock was cremated at Cypress Lawn Mortuary and cremains were delivered to Guy W. Jenness, undertaker, San Anselmo, CA in August, 1943.
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Enlisted at Turner Field, Albany, GA, March 30, 1942.
Entered the service from Georgia; Wilcox County. ASN O-798056
Second Lieutenant Blalock served with the 464th Bomb Squadron, 331st Bomb Group, Casper Army Air Base, Wyoming.

B-17F Flying Fortress #42-5318 departed Casper on the morning of May 30, 1943, on a training flight that took the crew to Marysville, California.

After a stop at Marysville, the bomber was to fly in a group of fifteen aircraft onward to Eugene, Oregon. However, the B-17 disappeared. It was presumed they were lost over the water of the Pacific. But the wreckage of the plane was found on August 10, 1943, fifteen miles northeast of Covelo, in Mendocino County, on Leech Lake Mountain.

Killed were:

2nd Lt. James O Westbury, O-735480, AL, Pilot
2nd Lt. William W Blalock, O-798056, GA, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Joseph J Weitzel Jr, O-800796, PA, Navigator
2nd Lt. Ralph S Johnson, O-738983, MA, Bombardier
S/Sgt. Paul P Shaffer, 35382732, WV, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Ralph J Sicking, 35306920, OH, Radio Operator
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Lt. Blalock was cremated at Cypress Lawn Mortuary and cremains were delivered to Guy W. Jenness, undertaker, San Anselmo, CA in August, 1943.
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Enlisted at Turner Field, Albany, GA, March 30, 1942.
Entered the service from Georgia; Wilcox County. ASN O-798056

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