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Casualty Info
Home Town Broad Top City, Pennsylvania
Last Address B-17G "Miss Behaven"
Casualty Date Jun 10, 1944
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Mediterranean Sea
Conflict WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rome-Arno Campaign (1944)
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Florence, Italy
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Tablets of the Missing
Hugh served as a Staff Sergeant on B-17G "Miss Behaven" (#42-37997), 775th Bomber Squadron, 463rd Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army on January 21, 1943 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was noted as being employed as a painter and also as Single, with dependents.
Hugh was declared "Missing In Action" along with the entire crew of his B-17 near Italy during the war. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
