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George T. Lupton enlisted in the Army on 27 January 1941 in Georgetown, Delaware. He received his wings as aerial navigator at Selman Field, Monroe, La., in March 1943. He went overseas in August and had been stationed with the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. He had formerly been employed by the DuPont Company. The Lewes officer served in three branched of the Army since his enlistment about three years ago. First attached to the coast artillery, he was later transferred to the signal corps, and then attended officer candidate school at Fort Monmouth, N.J. While stationed at Orlando, Fla., he asked to be transferred to the Army Air Forces.

Lieutenant Harris was leading a flight over the target when he sustained serious damage to his aircraft. Shortly after leaving the target he relinguished his lead position and lost altitude rapidly. The aircraft was last sighted at approximately 1255 hours, southeast of Gyor, Hungary at 4730N, 1740E at an altitude of approximately 11,000 feet, heading in an Easterly direction toward the Russian lines. The weather was clear at the time.

Lt Lupton bailed out about halfway Gyor and Komoram, Hungary. He had a flak wound, upper portion on the right leg near the crotch and was bleading badly. Some crew members gave him first aid but couldn´t stop the flow of blood. The bombardier was afraid that the loss of blood proved fatal.

Only 1st Lt Lupton and the tail gunner S/Sgt Melvin G. Schwulst were killed.

The other crew members stated that on the way down German soldiers shot at the parachutes. Since they had seen the body of Sgt Schwulst on a carriage with he gun shot wound in the head, they believed he was killed that way.

He is remembered at the Lewes
Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware