REASON FOR LOSS:

Shot down by enemy ground fire while on a mission near the Wadi Akarit in southern Tunisia. Burial was made by enemy forces who placed a bent propeller blade at the head of his grave as a marker. The wreckage of his P-40 can been seen in the back ground of the above photo.

P-40 Aircraft from Uber’s squadron undergoing maintenance in Libya.

Burial Details:

First buried in the western desert, later reinterred in the USA in his home town cemetery in Ohio.

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