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Front Row: Left to Right: 2nd Lt. Robert Hanson Christy, 2nd Lt. Paul Dean Snedigar, 2nd Lt. Edward Stanley Kowalonek, 2nd Lt. James Frederick Sutherland Jr. Back Row: Left to Right: Sgt. Richard H. Martin Jr., Sgt. Leonard J. Marcus, S/Sgt. Albert Stephen Dold, Sgt. Augustine Perrotti, Sgt. James Hollis Simmons, S/Sgt. Lawson Clifford Chitester |
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On April 8, 1944, a B-24 Liberator Bomber (41-28983) took off from Topeka Army Air Field in Kansas. The B-24, and its crew of ten men of the United States Army Air Corps, were bound for Morrison Field in West Palm Beach, Florida. Morrison Field was a staging base for the theaters of war. After a stopover, the B-24 Liberator Bomber and its crew of ten men would have been en route to Europe via the South Atlantic Ferry Route to join the Allied effort to defeat the Nazi war machine. Shortly after takeoff, the B-24 crashed in the Millington, Tennessee area in the vicinity of the Chickasaw Ordnance Works. Nine men were killed, and one man, Sgt. Richard H. Martin Jr. from Lynchburg, Virginia, parachuted to safety and survived the crash. He was admitted to Kennedy General Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The men who perished in the crash are listed as official casualties of World War II, having died in the service of their country. |
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Click here to listen to "I'LL BE SEEING YOU" sung by Jo Stafford.
Click here to listen to "NOW IS THE HOUR " by Vera Lynn.
Click here to listen to "FROM THE TIME YOU SAY GOODBYE" sung by Vera Lynn.
Click here to listen to "WE'LL MEET AGAIN" sung by Vera Lynn.
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Site designed, coded in HTML, and maintained by the nephew of
S/Sgt Albert Stephen Dold,
Kurt Albert Dold
of Norwood, Massachusetts.
This Web page tribute was originally published on October 1, 2000. The last update to this page was on August 21, 2005. |
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The Cover photo on this Web page was scanned from the "Best of the 40's" Songbook. The animation and sound were downloaded from various Internet Web sites that offer them free of charge to all. If there are any questions concerning anything about this Web page, please contact me, and I will be more than happy to answer them. Thank you. 
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