Voyle E Spence
Military
Navigator
Lawrence L. Leach Crew
305th BG - 366th BS
Chris Brassfield
Object Number - UPL 16191 - LT Voyle Spence Navigator Lawrence L. Leach Crew 305th BG - 366th BS
Shot down by fighters 16 April 1943 in B-17 #425220. Mission was to uboat yards at Lorient. Plane crashed about 12 miles northeast of Lorient. Prisoner of War (POW) at Stalag 3. This was his first and last mission
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 366th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Indian Creek Township, White County, Illinois | 26 March 1918 | |
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Enlisted |
Rantoul, IL 61866, USA | 3 November 1941 | Chanute AAF |
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Other Shot down/Captured |
Languidic, France | 16 April 1943 | |
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Died |
Urbana, IL, USA | 18 November 2009 | Voyle E. Spence, 91, of Mahomet passed away at 4 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2009, at Carle Foundatin Hospital, Urbana, Illinois. He was born March 26, 1918, in White County, Illinois. He married Ruth Prest on Feb. 27, 1942. She survives. Also surviving are a son, Timothy Spence; a daughter, Judith (Peter) Wilkin and grandsons, Samuel Wilkin and Daniel (Sarah Doty) Wilkin and great-granddaughter Raley Wilkin; son David (Toni Crook) Spence and grandson Sean (Cherie) Crook. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and was an officer and navigator on a B-17 heavy bomber. He was shot down over France April 16, 1943 and was captured by the Germans. He spent two years as a prisoner of war. News Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, IL |
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Buried |
Champaign, IL, USA | 21 November 2009 | Grandview Memorial Gardens Champaign Champaign County Illinois, USA |
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Other POW |
Zagan, Poland | Stalag Luft III (was Sagan, Germany during the war) |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, p. 104 WW National Monument
