Agee Jr. , Lyon Elkin

Name and Rank, First Lieutenant Lyon Elkin Agee Jr.

Unit/placed, 512th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group.

Lyon was born on Sep. 25, 1924 in Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia.

Father, Lyon Elkin Agee.

Mother, Pearl (Evans) Agee.

Brother, Billy Agee.

Lyon entered the Service from Tennessee in May 29. 1942 with service number # O-810629.

Lyon E. Agee Jr. rank/duty was a First Lieutenant/Pilot (P-47) in the 512th Fighter Squadron.

Lyon was KIA on a Armed Recon mission over Cherbourg when his Plane probably got hit by FLAK and he crashed in the English Channel, on June 22, 1944, he is honored with an Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Lyon is mentioned/buried at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.
Tablets of the Missing.

Thanks to http://512thfightersquadron.com/

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMK1-MJZ

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org