Warren Jay Pease
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
"Iowans of the Mighty Eighth", Chapter 19 "Killed in Action", by Charles D Taylor
Object Number - UPL 21928 - Warren J Pease - Farragut, 385th BG, KIA
Involved in a mid-air collision with another B-17 from the same group on return from operations to airfields in GB on 21 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-37963 and crashed on Reedham Marshes, Norfolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
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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: 385th Bomb Group 549th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Juniata, NE, USA | 19 March 1922 | |
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Enlisted |
Farragut, IA, USA | 3 April 1942 | |
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Died Killed in action |
Reedham, Norwich, Norfolk, UK | 21 February 1944 | |
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Buried |
Coton, Cambridge, UK | At Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Findagrave.com 56293247 |
Revisions
Additional biographical details from http://www.findagrave.com
Find A Grave Memorial# 110805445
American Battle Monuments Commission
Combat Chronology, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
