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Personal info

Full name
MOORE, James Edwin
Date of birth
31 July 1917
Age
26
Place of birth
Frost, Navarro County, Texas
Hometown
Navarro County, Texas

Military service

Service number
O-755732
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
733rd Bombardment Squadron,
453rd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
8 May 1944
Place of death
Klein-Stockheim, 4 miles south of Brunswick, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 40 49

Immediate family

Members
George E. Moore (father)
Cora A. (Porter) Moore (mother)
Horace Moore (brother)
Earl Moore (brother)
Nedra Moore (sister)
Frances Moore (sister)
Dean (Newell) Moore (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
41-28745
Data
Type: B-24E
Destination: Brunswick, Germany
Mission: Operational
MACR: 4590

More information

2nd Lt James E. Moore entered the Air Corps and trained at Tulare, Chico, and Stockton AA Fields, Calif., Davis Monthan Field, Arizona, and Langley Field, VA. Went overseas March 1944. Reported missing since May 1944. Declared dead May, 1945.

The airplane was shot down by flak.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S.,
Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ - The Corsicana Daily Sun / Diane Richards, WWII Draft Card, 1930 US Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ - The Corsicana Daily Sun / Diane Richards