Name:
Silvester D. LaTorre
Rank:
Corporal
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Unit:
3rd Replacement and Training Squadron
Date of Death:
1944-07-04
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Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Silvester D. LaTorre served as a Corporal and Gunner on B-26B #41-18072, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
On July 4, 1944, his crew failed to return from a short navigational flight out of Toome, North Ireland when their plane crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. All men aboard were killed. The crew was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and their remains were exhumed and transferred. CPL LaTorre's current burial place is unknown.
Source of information: www.americanairmuseum.com