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Personal info

Full name
WILSON, Avis K
Date of birth
9 June 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Radford, Virginia
Hometown
Montgomery County, Virginia
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
13035110
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Ball Turret Gunner
Unit
564th Bombardment Squadron,
389th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Distinguished Service Cross,
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 August 1943
Place of death
Just beyond a road bridge near Banesti
3 miles southwest of Campina, Romania

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 32 27

Immediate family

Members
Arch D. Wilson (father)
Gladys (Simpkins) Wilson (mother)
Eunice (Long) Wilson (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-40753
Data
Type: B-24D
Nickname: Ole Kickapoo
Destination: Campina, Prahova, Romania
MACR: 157

More information

Lt. Hughes’ ship was observed entering the target area with a gasoline leak, and after dropping his bomb load, emerged on fire. He attempted an emergency landing in a dry river bed south of the target and while doing so his plane dropped off on the right wing, the tip struck the ground and the ship cart-wheeled wing over wing.

Crash-landed in the dry Prahova river bed, about three miles southwest of Campina, just beyond a road bridge near Banesti, Rumania

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Michel Beckers, Terry Hirsch, www.389thbg.net, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Mireille Goedhart, www.findagrave.com - Rajordan

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