Name:
Roy Joseph Horrigan
Rank:
Technical Sergeant
Serial Number:
14079690
Unit:
862nd Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomber Group
Date of Death:
2000-05-24
State:
Louisiana
Cemetery:
Saint Marys Cemetery, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi
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Born November 25, 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Radio Navigator 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 survived the crash, captured and sent to Stag Luft 3, a prisoner of war camp.