TSgt. Jesse A. Wallace, Texas, Service No. 38043713, flew as flight engineer and aerial gunner on B-24 Liberators with the 36th Bomb Squadron, 482nd Bomb Group. He was killed during a cross country training flight on 27 Dec 1943 in a modified B-24 bomber, #42-40474, when it collided with a mountain near Widecombe in Devon, United Kingdom. The crew was training for a secret mission. On board and also killed was the Operations Officer for the 36th Squadron.
[Source: Peters Funeral Home Records, 1941-1955, by Hunt County Genealogical Society (1992), page 154: Sgt. Jessie Allen Wallace; white; born 1 Dec 1918 Greenville; army; resided Greenville,TX; single; died 21 Dec 1943 England; aged 25 years; son of G.W. Wallace & Nellie Sue Allen; World War II veteran]
Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner, Fri, 30 Jul 1948, page 7, Rites Today for Sergeant Wallace
Funeral services were held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Baptist church for Technical Sgt. Jesse Allen Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray W. Wallace, 3718 Eutopia, who was killed in a plane crash near London, England, on December 17, 1943.
Rev. George Sagen, pastor of Washington Street Baptist church; Rev. J.P. Fleming of McKinney, and Rev. Victor K. Aubrey, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church conducted the services. Military services were held at the gravesite at East Mount cemetery.
Pallbearers were Lafe Rawkings, Jimmy Morgan, Medford Thompson, Billy Merrill, Horace Prather, Charles Berry of Paris, and Ted Mathews of Bonham.
TSgt. Jesse A. Wallace, Texas, Service No. 38043713, flew as flight engineer and aerial gunner on B-24 Liberators with the 36th Bomb Squadron, 482nd Bomb Group. He was killed during a cross country training flight on 27 Dec 1943 in a modified B-24 bomber, #42-40474, when it collided with a mountain near Widecombe in Devon, United Kingdom. The crew was training for a secret mission. On board and also killed was the Operations Officer for the 36th Squadron.
[Source: Peters Funeral Home Records, 1941-1955, by Hunt County Genealogical Society (1992), page 154: Sgt. Jessie Allen Wallace; white; born 1 Dec 1918 Greenville; army; resided Greenville,TX; single; died 21 Dec 1943 England; aged 25 years; son of G.W. Wallace & Nellie Sue Allen; World War II veteran]
Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner, Fri, 30 Jul 1948, page 7, Rites Today for Sergeant Wallace
Funeral services were held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Baptist church for Technical Sgt. Jesse Allen Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray W. Wallace, 3718 Eutopia, who was killed in a plane crash near London, England, on December 17, 1943.
Rev. George Sagen, pastor of Washington Street Baptist church; Rev. J.P. Fleming of McKinney, and Rev. Victor K. Aubrey, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church conducted the services. Military services were held at the gravesite at East Mount cemetery.
Pallbearers were Lafe Rawkings, Jimmy Morgan, Medford Thompson, Billy Merrill, Horace Prather, Charles Berry of Paris, and Ted Mathews of Bonham.
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