Name:
Wayne D. Hicks
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-704292
Unit:
555th Bomb Squadron, 386th Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1944-10-05
State:
Iowa
Cemetery:
Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France
Plot:
B
Row:
3
Grave:
67
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Bombadier of the B-26 Yankee Gorilla, took off from Bernes sur Oise to bomb the German barracks in Duren, Germany. Crashed due to mechanical problems by Rethondes, France. Hicks and three others were killed while two crewmembers survived. Buried in a communal plot with his crew.