Name:
Roy M. Pederson
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-2071822
Unit:
866th Bomber Squadron, 494th Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1945-07-28
State:
Iowa
Cemetery:
Atlantic Cemetery, Atlantic, IA
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Navigator of the B-24 “Lonesome Lady” which took off from Yontan Airfield, Okinawa on 28 July 1945 on a bombing mission against the Japanese battleship Haruna anchored in Kure Harbor by Hiroshima. After dropping their bombs, the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire and went into a vertical dive, crashing in a field near the town of Ikachi. The entire crew was able to bail out. Petersen was not heard from again. On 3 Jun 1948 his parents were informed that he was buried in the US Armed Forces Cemetery in Yokohama, Japan. His remains were repatriated to Iowa in 1949.