Willis Dall Locke

Military
media-29595.jpeg UPL 29595 Major Willis D. Locke of Kingston, NY, pilot and commanding officer of the Mosquito squadron is shown demonstrating the powerful photo flash bomb used by the 8th Air Force, 325th Recon Wing, fliers on daring night photo missions over Europe. Pictured are L-R: 1Lt Robert P Walker, 1Lt William G Miskho, M/Sgt James M Tennille Jr and Major Locke.

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Object Number - UPL 29595 - Major Willis D. Locke of Kingston, NY, pilot and commanding officer of the Mosquito squadron is shown demonstrating the powerful photo flash bomb...

Assigned to 50 Fighter Squadron, Iceland; transferred to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.



Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

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

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Albany, NY 9 March 1918 Son of Willis R and Ethelinda [Dell] Locke.

Enlisted

New York City, NY 23 September 1941 New York City, New York

Other

Discharged USAAAF

7 January 1946 Honourable discharge.

Died

Kingston, NY 16 July 2007

Buried

Wiltwyck Cemetery Kingston, Ulster County, NY 19 July 2007 Wiltwyck Cemetery Kingston, Ulster County, New York
Kingston, NY 12401, USA

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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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Aerial Intelligence for the 8th Air Force, pg 57 (photo) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Object number: UPL 29595 - Major Willis D. Locke of Kingston, NY, pilot and...