Rank and Name, First Lieutenant Dana Keith Wallace.
Unit/Placed in, 409th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bomber Group (Heavy).
Dana was born approx. on 1923 in Oregon.
Father, Dan Wallace
Mother, Ruth Wallace.
Dana enlisted the service at San Francisco, California on Oct. 27, 1942 with service number #, O-886647.
Dana‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane a B-24 were,
Captain George R. Schluter Pilot
Captain Byard F. Baker Co Pilot
1st Lt. Dana K. Wallace Navigator
1st Lt. Martin J. McMahon Bombardier
1st Lt. Henry R. Salva Asst. Radio Operator
1st Lt. Richard Boyd Asst. Pilot/Navigator
T/Sgt. Bud R. Curtis Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
T/Sgt. Howard T. Heneger Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Orville L. Nelson Right Waist Gunner
S/Sgt. Joseph S. Collier Left Waist Gunner
S/Sgt. Rodney D. Bortis Tail Gunner
T5. Paul V. Connors Observer
Dana K. Wallace was Killed in Action during a bomb mission to Dordmund, Germany when the plane was on Fire and exploded of that at, on Jan. 28, 1945, and he is honored with an Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Dana is buried at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial
Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Thanks to http://www.93bg.com/
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.
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
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
The 93rd Bomb Group.
“The 93rd Bomb. Group was formed in 1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana with core personnel from the 44th Bomb Group. After training at Barksdale, the group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, where it continued training and flew anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. They were credited with 3 U-Boats. After three months, the group moved to Grenier Field, New Hampshire and prepared to move overseas. They arrived in England in late September 1942, ground personnel traveling on the Queen Elizabeth, and flew the first B-24 combat mission from England on October 9, 1942.”
