Name:
William Kaplan
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
0-693991
Unit:
862nd Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomber Group
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
State:
New York
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Decoration:
French Legion of Honor
Comments:
Of Spring Valley, New York. Pilot of an American heavy bomber, a D-24 "Liberator" from the U.S. Army 8th Air Force that crashed on the lawn of the chateau in Chambord after bombing an airport southwest of Paris and being crippled by antiaircraft fire and German fighter planes. He escaped the crash and the Germans and joined the resistance in the camp at Freteval.
2Lt Kaplan's name on the memorial at Chambered is listed as Kalan.