SSGT Lloyd E. Wagner
Record NO: (724)
Place of birth / home town LIMA
Unit / Ship / duty Station 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
Date of Casuality Jan 03, 1943
Cause of Death or Status KIA
Place of Incident W Europe
Place of Burial or Memorial Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
Awards Air Medal, Purple Heart , WWII Victory Medal
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Assigned as a Waist Gunner on of B-17F 41-24608 [BN-S] "Yahoodi", 303BG/359BS at at Alamogordo Field, New Mexico. Arrived in the UK at Molesworth, UK on 12-Oct-42 with "Yahoodi" as the first aircraft of the 303BG to arrived in England.
Shot down 3 January 1943 in B-17F 41-24608 'Yehudi' while serving as Engineer/Top Turret Gunner. Aircraft crashed into the sea off the Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France. Killed in Action (KIA). Participated in 6 Operations (3 were aborted) See Biography events.
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