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Personal info

Full name
LA BAFF, Albert F Jr
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
6153313
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Tail Gunner
Unit
567th Bombardment Squadron,
389th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 February 1944
Place of death
Near Langenfield, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 10 57

Immediate family

Members
Albert F. La Baff Sr. (father)
Aline B. (LeClair) La Baff (mother)
Claire I. La Baff (sister)
Dorothy A. (Buxton) La Baff (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-40619
Data
Type: B-24D
Destination: Gotha, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the aircraft factories
MACR: 2938

More information

Sgt Albert F. La Baff Jr. attended a Royal Air Force Gunnery School before he joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army in June 1940 from Massachusetts.

The plane was shot down by rocket fire from fighters

S/Sgt Lloyd E. Brimmer:
Do to the fact our plane was hit in the tail end. It is my belief that he was either killed outright or was injured so bad that he couldn’t bail out.

Sgt La Baff didn't leave the airplane

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / Adam Libby Family Tree, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.findagrave.com – John Dowdy, www.newspapers.com – The Springfield Daily Republican - 19 September 1942/The Republican - 28 March 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – LuxAmCem, www.newspapers.com – The Republican 28 March 1944/Springfield Evening Union - 25 March 1944