Lawrence Banfield

Military

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Units served with

The insignia of the 34th Bomb Group

34th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

John J Beyer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 34th Bomb Group 391st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: T-123221
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Sullivan County, Indiana 17 April 1923

Enlisted

Peoria, Illinois 3 January 1942

Based

Cluntoe 26 May 1944 Assigned with his crew to the 2nd Training and Replacement Squadron for combat crew training.

Died

Milan, Illinois 15 January 2010 Lawrence "Rick" Banfield, 86, of Milan, died Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at his home. Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 201 E. 4th Ave., Milan. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Inurnment will be at National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, where military rites will be conducted by the Milan American Legion Post No. 569/200 and the Rock Island VFW Post No. 1303. Memorials may be made to the family. Lawrence was born on April 17, 1923, in Sullivan County, Ind., the son of Arch and Gertrude Banfield. He married Lillian Cox in 1947; she died in 1973. Later, he married Dorothy Batt in 1974; she passed away in 2006. Mr. Banfield worked as a dock foreman for Doran Transfer Co. retiring in 1981. He had also worked in the maintenance department at Augustana College. Rick was a World War II Army Air Force veteran. He served as an engineer and waist gunner on the B-24 Liberator and on the B-17 Flying Fortress. Mr. Banfield flew missions over occupied Europe and into Germany. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Louis Priester, St. Louis; two grandsons and a granddaughter; one great-grandson and one great-granddaughter; sisters, Clarabelle Fogle, Moline, Avey Boss, East Moline; a brother, Frank Banfield. Rick was preceded in death by his parents; one sister; five brothers. (Rock Island Argus, Jan. 22, 2010)

Buried

Rock Island National Cemetery, Illinois 18 January 2010 Burial Rock Island National Cemetery Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA Add to Map Plot L - 1688

Based

Mendlesham

Revisions

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Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60108240/lawrence-banfield
http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=1190827

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Sources

1996 34th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia