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Personal info

Full name
DYER, Juan J
Date of birth
29 February 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas
Hometown
Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
O-679060
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
429th Bombardment Squadron,
2nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
Giesing, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Harlen E. Dyer (father)
Margaret C. (Hainbach) Dyer (mother)
Mary K. Dyer (sister)
Margret D. Dyer (sister)
Harledge J. Dyer (brother)
Jane K. Dyer (sister)
Phillip Dyer (brother)
Rose Dyer (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
44-8043
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Munich, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yards
MACR: 8949

More information

1st Lt Robert J. Foxen:
"B-17 No.043 hit by flak just before bombs away. No.043 was hit on the left wing, wing tip and aerilon was blown off, he stood up on the left wing and almost turned completely over then fell off into a slow vertical spin. This was at 1217 hours, at approximately 29,000 feet."

He did not have time to bail out. His remains were never recovered.

He is remembered at the Saint Patricks Cemetery in Chanute, Noasho County, Kansas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1940 Census / McCarthy Griffen Family Tree, www.fold3.com, www.findagrave.com – Tioga Rose / Have Paws will travel
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Tiago Rose, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Chanute High School