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Personal info

Full name
LANDERS, Walter Lee Jr
Date of birth
1 June 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Floyd County, Georgia
Hometown
Floyd County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
14103195
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Waist Gunner
Unit
326th Bombardment Squadron,
92nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
26 July 1943
Place of death
North Sea

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Walter L. Landers (father)
Bessie Landers (mother)
Paul Landers (brother)
Opal R. Landers (sister)
Mary H. Landers (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-29709
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Yo Brother
Destination: Hannover, Germany
MACR: 190

More information

Sgt Walter L. Landers Jr. attended Rome High School before he enlisted with the Air Corps on 30 March 1942 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Last seen to hit water about 10 minutes off Island of Nordernay w/one engine on fire, tail chewed up. On 26 July 1943 when it failed to return due to a mid-air collision with a German fighter and crashed in the North Sea.

Sgt Landers is memorialized at East View Cemetery in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorail.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - Rome High School Yearbook 1940