George Blew Langley, Jr. was born on November 8, 1921, in New Jersey. He was the son of George Blew Langley and Essie Sharp Langley.

George enlisted in the US Army on August 29, 1942, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. At the time of his death, he was serving as a Sergeant and Ball Turret Gunner on the B-17 #43-38701, 850th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. B-17G 43-38701 took off from Eye in Suffolk on the morning of April 19, 1945, on a mission to bomb the marshaling yards at Aussig in Czechoslovakia. After successfully releasing their bombs they were attacked and shot down by German aircraft just south of Dresden, Germany. Their plane was hit at the starboard wing and set the fuel tanks and two engines ablaze. 2nd Lt. Trojanowski, Sgt. Dole and S/Sgt. Lesh were the only members of the ten-man crew that managed to bail out of the burning aircraft. The other crew members perished when the airplane exploded in mid-air, and the wreckage fell to earth in fields between the villages of Hradišťko, Sestrouň, and Zberaz, some 45 km south of Prague.

Sgt Langley is now buried in the Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA.

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