Pullen, Ray Ben, 1LT

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Service Details

Last Rank
First Lieutenant

Last Service Branch
Aviation

Last Primary MOS
AAF 1054-Pilot - Two-Engine

Last MOS Group
Aviation (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1944-1944, AAF 1054, USAAF 9th Army Air Force

Service Years
1942 - 1944

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Kentucky

Year of Birth
1917

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Casualty Info

Home Town Farmington	Last Address Farmington

Casualty Date Jun 06, 1944
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location France	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Farmington Cemetery - Farmington, Kentucky	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

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Military Association Memberships


	1944, D-Day Fallen
	1944, World War II Fallen [Verified]3

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Unit Assignments/ Advancement Schools


	1944-1944, AAF 1054, USAAF 9th Army Air Force

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1944-1944 WWII - European Theater of Operations/Normandy Campaign (1944)/Operation Overlord/D-Day Beach Landings - Operation Neptune

Additional Information

Last Known Activity
Not Specified

Comments/Citation

1Lt. Ray Ben Pullen was the pilot a C-47A Skytrain (#42-100905) from the 95th Troop Carrier Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier Group, 50th Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command, 9th Air Force. His aircraft, code-named Chalk 15, was brought down by German anti-aircraft fire during the early-morning hours of D-Day, Jun. 6, 1944, west of Magneville with the loss of Pullen, the other three members of the crew, and all 18 paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.