Leroy Hall Jr
Military
Fighter Pilot
57th Fighter Group - 64th Fighter Squadron
Object Number - UPL 25464 - Captain Leroy Hall, Jr. Fighter Pilot 57th Fighter Group - 64th Fighter Squadron
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
![Ground personnel of the 51st Fighter Group, 10th Air Force work on a P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-29264). Handwritten caption on reverse: '51 FG, 316 FS, [illegible].'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-457064.jpg.webp?itok=K4c3SuWM)
Events
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Born |
North Carolina, USA | 15 August 1922 | |
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Died |
Memphis, TN, USA | 18 October 1992 | LEROY HALL JR., 70, of Memphis, formerly of Hillsborough, N.C., retired air traffic controller, died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. He served as a captain in the 57th Fighter Pilot Group and 64th Squadron during World War II, and attended the University of North Carolina. Mr. Hall, the husband of Stephanie Jackson Hall, also leaves four daughters, Christi ne Allen, Dotty Hicks, Stephanie J. Shapiro and Grace E. Speer, all of Memphis; a son, Leroy Hall III of New Orleans; three sisters, Dot Holloway, Mary Ellen Copeland and Betsy Ann Tilley, and a brother, David Hall, all of Hillsborough, and seven grandch ildren. The family requests any memorials be sent to the Boy Scouts of America. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 10/20/1992) |
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Buried |
Memphis, TN, USA | 21 October 1992 | West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery Memphis Shelby County Tennessee, USA Plot: Section FF, Site 16469 |
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