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Casualty Info
Home Town Berkley County
Casualty Date Mar 29, 1943
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Burma
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Rosedale Cemetery - Martinsburg, West Virginia
After the United States entered World War II against the Japanese Empire, Fourteenth Air Force was established by the special order of President Roosevelt on March 10, 1943 as the United States Army Air Force combat command in China. It operated in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater and was popularly known as the Flying Tigers.