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Harley Rex EASTBURN
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Source : S Hemingway & JP Gentil | |||||||
| NUMBER OF SERVICE | 39320610 | ||||||
| AGE | 22 | ||||||
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22 January 1922 Freeman Spokane County WASHINGTON | ||||||
| ENLISTMENT STATE | OREGON | ||||||
| FAMILY |
Spouse : Virginia Lee Greer Parents : Lindsey C & Olive L Reece EASTBURN Siblings : Clifford, Esther, Charles, John,Dorrene | ||||||
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| FONCTION | Gunner | ||||||
| JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT | lumberjack |  | |||||
| DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 27 October 1942 | ||||||
| SQUADRON | 359th Bomb Squadron | ||||||
| GROUP | 303th Bomb Group | ||||||
| ARMY | 8th Air Force | ||||||
| DATE OF DEATH | 11 January 1944 |
Memorial Day 2024 Source : Steven Vandebroek | |||||
| STATUS | KIA | ||||||
| PLACE OF DEATH | Lippe (Rhémanie du Nord) GERMANY | ||||||
| PLAN DE VOL / FLIGHT PLAN | B-17 F # 42-29894, "Baltimore Bounce" | ||||||
| CEMETERY TEMPORARY |
CEMTERY TEMPORARY of Neuville-En-Cordrez Cemetery, Liege, Belgium N°1260
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| CEMETERY |
ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY of Neupré (Neuville-en-Condroz), Liège, Belgium | ||||||
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Source : S Hemingway & JP Gentil |
After 3 years of high school, he worked as a lumberjack, in 1942 before his enlistment, he married Virginia Lee Greer at Diston Cottage Grove in Oregon.
He lived in Lane County at Mosby Creek near Blue Mountain.
After his basic training, he was sent to the shooting school at Sheppard Field in Texas in March 1943, then in October, November 1943, for crew training, and he arrived in England at Molesworth Station 107 on November 14, 1943. | ||||||
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Most of the crew had completed 5 missions, the mission of 11 January 1944, to bomb an assembly plant of FW 190 fighters in Oscherleben in Germany. The target was successfully achieved, but on the return, the formation was targeted by many fighters; the Baltimore Bounce was shot down by the DCA or a fighter. All the crew will be killed, they will be found on January 13, 1944 by the inhabitants and buried worthily in coffins. The B17 crashed on the barn of the Wrenger family, Horts the son was 12 years old at the time and remembered the accident very well. He will later post his testimony on the internet, he will be contacted by Mr. and Mrs. Bolesta, descendants of 2Lt Joseph Burton KYNE who was on the plane. They will meet in 2015, and on this occasion a commemorative plaque will be placed at the cemetery of Laubke. |
Source : S Hemingway & JP Gentil | ||||||
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Crew : 2 Lt William A PURSELL pilot harthort Connecticut 2 Lt Francis D KROHW Copilot Cemetery port arthur Texas 2 Lt Marvin H MUSEET navigator Cemetery Ardennes 2 Lt Joseph B KYNE bomber Cemetery clay center Nebraska Sgt James C BEENY radio Cimetery Bloomfield Connecticut Sgt Peter C CASTRICIANO flight engineer Cemetery Ardennes Sgt Leonard N FANER spherical gunner Cemetery Ardennes Sgt Kermitt W NYE left gunner Cemetery shilligton Pennsylvannie Sgt John W SWANSON gunnerarrière |
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Source : S Hemingway & JP Gentil | |||||||
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Source : Ancestry | |||||||
| SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | JP Gentil - Findagrave.com - Abmc.gov - Ancestry- Fold3 |
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| EDITORS | Victor, Jean-Philippe, Eric, Henri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud |