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Personal info

Full name
REYES, Miguel Ayala "Mike"
Date of birth
14 April 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
Hometown
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona

Military service

Service number
39857267
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Right Waist Gunner
Unit
856th Bombardment Squadron,
492nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
20 June 1944
Place of death
Baltic Sea

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Dolores A. (Campillo) Reyes (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-110152
Data
Type: B-24J
Nickname: The Lady Will
Destination: Politz, Germany
MACR: 7084

More information

Sgt Reyes attended Tucson High School and went into the army in March, 1943. An aerial gunner on a B-24, he had been overseas less than a month when he was listed as misisng in action. He married Dolores Campillo on 10 August 1942 in Pima, Arizona.
He graduated from the armament department of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command at Lowery Field, Colorado. He was a civilian employee of the quartermaster department at Davis-Monthan Field prior to entering the armed forces.

Source of information: Michel Beckers, 492ndbombgroup.com, MACR, www.newspapers.com - Arizona Daily Star

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com