Jarret Leland

Monuments

B-26 Marauder 'Lassie Come Home' (42-96168) Crewmen Memorial

Name:

Leland Jarret

Rank:

Technical Sergeant

Serial Number:

18096933

Unit:

599th Bomber Squadron, 397th Bomb Group, Medium

Date of Death:

1944-08-03

State:

Arkansas

Cemetery:

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Plot:

Section 82

Row:

Grave:

Site 187

Decoration:

Comments:

Leland Jarrett was born in 1912, in Arkansas. He was the son of Thomas Richard Jarrett and Bertha V. McFarlin Jarrett. He served in the 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group, as a Technical Sergeant and Radio Operator of the B-26 42-96168 during World War II.

On August 3, 1944, B-26 Marauder 42-96168 took off from station #168 in Rivenhall, Essex, England on a mission Courtalain. The aircraft had a mid-air collision with B-26 42-96169 and crashed in Migeloup, France, killing all the crew members. The crash caused such severe devastation that it was impossible to identify the crew members individually, leading to their burial together in a collective grave in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay Township, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA.

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