Luther Avakian
Military ROLL OF HONOURUploaded
Assigned to 352FS, 353FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission north of Paris in P-47D 42-76195, exiting target hit by flak and crashed into ground, exploding. 2nd Lt Avakian Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 5504.
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Scotty Bill
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 352nd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
3 October 1922 | Born to Mugger (originally Muggerdich) and Queenie (nee Najarian) Avakian | |
Enlisted |
9 April 1942 | One of the last boys on his block to go to war | |
Died Killed in Action (KIA) |
7 June 1944 | He died in the closing days of the war. Failed to Return (FTR) mission north of Paris in P-47D 42-76195, exiting target hit by flak and crashed into ground, exploding. 2nd Lt Avakian Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 5504. | |
Buried |
Ararat Cemetery Fresno Fresno County California, USA. | ||
Other Hobbies |
Playing violin & building model airplanes |
Revisions
Donald: A Family History and Memoirs of a Journalist and Professor
CA Birth Records, U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, Find-A-Grave, 1930 & 1940 census
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5504 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list