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Personal info

Full name
LUNO, Leroy Lawrence
Date of birth
15 September 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
Hometown
Wayne County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
T-133780
Rank
Flight Officer
Function
unknown
Unit
495th Bombardment Squadron,
344th Bombardment Group, Medium
Awards
Air Medal

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
10 September 1945
Place of death
Trauchgau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 33 26

Immediate family

Members
Royal K. Luno (father)
Mary M. (Callens) Luno (mother)
Virginia Luno (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
43-34424
Data
Type: B-26G
Destination: Schleissheim, Germany

More information

Fl/O Leroy L. Luno joined the Regular Army in Detroit, Michigan on 23 September 1942.

This B-26 crashed into a moutain while en route from Florennes, Belgium to its new base in Schleissheim killing all 10 men on board. On board were four crew and six passengers. All were killed.

On one picture Leroy is on the left, right after he graduated flight school and before he left for Europe.

His father, Royal, is next to him. He was a U.S. Marine in WWI and wounded in Belleau Wood. He volunteered in WWII for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Jim Stearns, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Collins Family Tree, http://shopwornangel.imaginarynumber.net, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - DFR, Jim Stearns