James Jay Ley
Military ROLL OF HONOURRemoved errant associationed and transferred collection title to source message: https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell:jimmy-ley
Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. Clifton Freeman crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Ray-Sur-Authie, FR 29-Feb-44; hit by flak stbd engine feathered dropped out of formation salvoed bombs, Crashed Abbeville, FR Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 2455
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 322nd Bomb Group 451st Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 6991597
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Algona, Kossuth County, IA | 30 July 1922 | Son of William Everett and Lucile Florence [Wheeler] Ley. |
Enlisted |
Des Moines, IA | 15 July 1942 | Des Moines, Iowa |
Died |
Abbeville, France | 29 February 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Ray-Sur-Authie, FR 29-Feb-44 in B-26 41-34856; crashed Abbeville, FR KIA MACR 2455 |
Buried |
Maple Hill Cemetery Lakota, Kossuth County, IA | Re-Interred Maple Hill Cemetery Lakota, Kossuth County, Iowa | |
Lakota, IA | At time of draft registration noted as Student at Grinnell College in Grinnell Iowa | ||
Based |
Andrews Field | 29 February 1944 | Assigned to 451BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. |
Revisions
I am the nephew of James Jay Ley, and know the members of his crew from his 451st BS Book of missions and memories published after the war
Letters, pictures, and artifacts of James Jay Ley are archived in the Library of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, USA. https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell:jimmy-ley
I am his nephew, a physician and professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.