Neill Samuel Carter

Name:

Samuel Carter Neill

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-687700

Unit:

597th Bomber Squadron, 397th Bomb Group

Date of Death:

1944-06-24

State:

Oklahoma

Cemetery:

Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France

Plot:

B

Row:

19

Grave:

15

Decoration:

Air Medal, Purple Heart

Comments:

Samuel Carter Neill was born on July 31, 1922, in Bradley, Grady County, Oklahoma. He was the son of James Ottice Neill and Lena Belle Carter Neill. He was the husband of Bernice Geraldine Stroud Neill Davenport.

Samuel resided in Oklahoma prior to the war. He served in the 597th Bomber Squadron, 397th Bomb Group, as a Second Lieutenant and Pilot on the B-55-MA "Post War Plans" #42-96127 during World War II.

On June 24, 1944, his crew took off from Station 168 airfield in Rivenhall, England, with an assigned target of Maisons-La-Fitte Bridge, France. Hit by flak at about 1930hrs, their airplane went straight down the Avenue La Fountaine in Maisons-Lafitte. All members were killed in this incident.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, francecrashes39-45.net, www.abmc.gov