Name:
William M. Rhodes
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
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Unit:
742nd Bomber Squadron, 455th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
1944-08-25
State:
South Carolina
Cemetery:
Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Gray Cour
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Born 23 July 1923. Tail gunner of the B-24 G, 42-78240, "Our Love", which took off from near Bari, Italy on a bombing run of a train yard in Bucharest, Romania. Over the target, the plane was struck by anti-aircraft fire and thus fell out of formation and was attacked by five German fighter planes on the return flight, which brought the plane down. Rhodes did not make it out of the plane.