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Personal info

Full name
PYLES, John Edwin
Date of birth
10 January 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Waco, Mclennan County, Texas
Hometown
McLennan County, Texas

Military service

Service number
O-672411
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
410th Bombardment Squadron,
94th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 November 1943
Place of death
Chevy-Cossigny, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 8 65

Immediate family

Members
Oscar K. Pyles (father)
Eleanor (Kirkpatrick) Pyles (mother)
Alfred Pyles (brother)
Rochelle (Walters) Pyles (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-37821
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: The Sweetest One
Destination: Ivry, Paris, France
MACR: 1126

More information

1st Lt John E. Pyles attended Waco High School.

He enlisted in San Antonio, Texas on 25 March 1942

His aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision with a FW-109 which flew straight into the aircraft, striking between the fuselage and the #2 engine. 9 KIA 1 Evaded.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / Texas, Birth Certificates, www.fold3.com – MACR, http://www.8thafhs.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Dwight “Andy” Anderson, Daniel Bon, Arie-Jan van Hees, Pilot Class Book 43-B, Lubbock AFS, Texas.