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Personal info

Full name
RULE, Roy Russell
Date of birth
6 January 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Lovell, Big Horn County, Wyoming
Hometown
Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas

Military service

Service number
O-713228
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Navigator
Unit
429th Bombardment Squadron,
2nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

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
William T. Rule Jr. (father)
Anna L. (Doyle) Rule (mother)
Rose M. Rule (half-sister)
Clarence T. Rule (half-brother)
Laura Rule (half-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 Roy R. Rule attended Corpus Christi Junior College and was employed in the classified department at Corpus Christi Caller - Times newspaper.

He joined the Army in San Antonio, Texas on 12 October 1942.

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.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – Ferraro Family Tree, www.fold3.com, www.findagrave.com – Shirley A Rule, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Shirley A. Rule, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Corpus Christi Junior College