Name:
Joseph Millen Connable
Rank:
Sergeant
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Unit:
535th Bomber Squadron, 381st Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1998-02-12
State:
Tennessee
Cemetery:
Calvary Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
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Joseph Millen Connable was born in 1922.
A right waist gunner on the B-17 #423511, he was one of the survivors when his plane was shot down by flak on April 25, 1944. Their plane crashed in Precy-sur-Oise, seven miles southwest of Creil, France. He was one of the 152 allied airmen and soldiers who were helped and hidden in the Freteval Forest camp by the French Resistance to evade German capture.
Sgt Connable died on February 12, 1998, and is now buried in the Calvary Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA.