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Personal info

Full name
LIMING, Max Eldon
Date of birth
28 July 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Greene County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
O-677797
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
532nd Bombardment Squadron,
381st Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 October 1943
Place of death
Danmark

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 39 20

Immediate family

Members
Sherman O. Liming (father)
Zelpha Liming (mother)
Richard E. Liming (brother)
Brice E. Liming (brother)
Elsie J. (Owens) Liming (wife)

More information

Max E Liming enlisted in the US Army at Patterson Field Fairfield, Ohio on 13 April 1942. He married Elsie Jane Owens on 15 April 1943 in Harris, Texas.
According to 1st Lt Douglas Winter, Pilot of the Flying Fortress "The Great Profile", on which Lt Liming was co-pilot, Lt Liming and four crw members parachuted to earth over Germany. 1st Lt Winter ordered the crew to bail out after fire broke out in the cockpit. Lt Winter and five other crewmembers rode the flaming plane to a crash landing in England.

2nd Lt Liming was initially buried in Danmark.

Source of information: Dennis and Gerda Hermsen, WWIIMemorial.com, NARA, Missing Aircrew Report, www.newspapers.com - Wilmington News-Journal, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / Marriage Record / Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: Guy Maes, www.newspapers.com - Dayton Daily News 22 October 1943