Boggan Thomas Leslie

Name:

Thomas Leslie Boggan

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-691612

Unit:

328th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Death:

1980-03-01

State:

Mississippi

Cemetery:

Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi

Plot:

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Grave:

Decoration:

Air Medal

Comments:

Thomas Leslie Boggan was born on February 11, 1917, in McComb, Mississippi. He was the son of Thomas Edward Boggan and Ethel Bates Boggan.

Thomas served in the 328th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group, Heavy, as a Second Lieutenant and Bombardier on the B-24 #42-95043 'Lindie' during World War II.

On August 1, 1944, his crew took off from Station 104 airfield in Hardwick, England, on a bombing mission to the north of France. Hit by flak, an evacuation order was given. Three men, including 2Lt Boggan, jumped over Paris. Their plane crash-landed between Sheerness and East Church - Isle of Sheppey in Kent, UK. 2Lt Boggan survived and evaded enemy capture. 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.

2Lt Boggan retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He died on March 1, 1980, at the age of 63, in Westwego, Louisiana, and is now buried in the Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi.

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