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The Friends Of Leiston Airfield Roll of Honour

Leiston Airfield Roll of Honour Nov 1944 - May 1945

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy,forget in time that men have died to win them"

Franklin D Roosevelt. President of the United States of America.

March 4th 1933 to April 12th 1945
K = Killed   M = Missing   D = Died as POW       DA = Died on active service.

358th Fighter Group - Republic Aviation P47 Thunderbolt      Name Rank Squadron State Status Date Mark A Osborne  Lt  365th  North Carolina  K  7th Jan 1944  Donald A Younglas  Maj  367th  Michegan  K  7th Jan 1944  Corlys A Bedford  Lt  367th  Ohio  K  7th Jan 1944  Lance W Pousette  Lt  367th  North Dakota  K  7th Jan 1944

357th Fighter Group - North American Aviation P51 Mustang Name Rank Squadron State Status Date Lloyd W Hubbard  Capt  363rd  California  K  8th Feb 1944  Darwin J Carrol  Lt  364th  Washington  K  22nd Feb 1944  William W Gambill  Lt  363rd  Oregon  D  8th Mar 1944  Alvin F Pyeatt  Lt  362nd  California  D  16th Mar 1944  Konstantin J Vogel  Lt  362nd  Colorado  K  18th Mar 1944  Jack Warren  Capt  364th  California  M  18th Mar 1944  James E Strode  Lt  364th  Missouri  M  27th Mar 1944  Hubert I Egenes  Lt.Col  Dep.Grp.Cdr  Nebraska  K  28th Mar 1944  Santiago R Gutierrez  Lt  363rd  Texas  M  29th Mar 1944  William R McGinley  Lt  363rd  California  M  29th Mar 1944  Edwin R Sutton  Lt  364th  Ohio  K  29th Mar 1944  Davis T Perron  Capt  362nd  California  M  1st Apr 1944  Elmer D Rydberg  Lt  362nd  Iowa  M  1st Apr 1944  Arthur M Lingo  Capt  362nd  California  M  11th Apr 1944  Frank J Connaghan  Lt  362nd  California  K  24th Apr 1944  Ellis A Rogers  Capt  363rd  Oregon  K  8th May 1944  Donovan D Siverts  Lt  363rd  Minnesota  K  9th May 1944  Roger A Hilstad  Lt  362nd  Minnesota  K  12th May 1944  Joseph F Pierce  Lt  363rd  Oklahoma  K  21st May 1944  William C Reese  Lt  364th  Utah  K  21st May 1944  Joseph M Jenkins  Lt  364th  Georgia  K  24th May 1944  Dean Post  Lt  364th  Florida  K  27th May 1944  Fletcher E Adams  Capt  362nd  Louisiana  K  30th May 1944  Leroy Ruder  Lt  364th  Wisconsin  K  6th Jun 1944  Irvine A Smith  Lt  363rd  Oregon  K  6th Jun 1944  John H Denasha  Lt  364th  New York  K  7th Jun 1944  John K Childs  Lt  363rd  Illinois  K  10th Jun 1944  James E Colburn  Lt  364th  New York  K  14th Jun 1944  George P Barrett  Lt  363rd  Pennsylvania  K  14th Jun 1944  Richard C Smith  Capt  364th  Colorado  K  29th Jun 1944  Frank Koka  Lt  363rd  Ohio  K  7th Jul 1944  Daniel L Finley  Lt  364th  Virginia  D  30th Jul 1944   Paul Holmberg  Lt  362nd  Kansas  K  30th Jul 1944  Donald J Ferron  Lt  363rd  Ohio  K  10th Aug 1944  Charles O Campbell  Lt   363rd  Illinois  K  17th Aug 1944  Kirby M Brown  Lt  364th  Louisiana  K  13th Sep 1944  Marion E Burnett  Lt  363rd  Louisiana  K  13th Sep 1944  James A Valkwitch  Lt  363nd  New York  K  13th Sep 1944  Kenneth F Graeff  Lt  363rd  Missouri  M  15th Sep 1944  Louis E Nowlin  Lt  363rd  Dist. of Columbia  M  15th Sep 1944  Robert J Fandray  Lt  364th  Pennsylvania  K  18th Sep 1944  Edwin W Hiro  Maj  363rd  Minnesota  M  18th Sep 1944  James L Blanchard  Lt  362nd  New York  K  19th Sep 1944  James W Leek  Lt   364th  Idaho  K  28th Sep 1944  Edward K Simpson  Lt  363rd  New Jersey  K  10th Oct 1944  Horace M Roycroft  Lt  363rd  Kansas  K  18th Oct 1944  Lawrence P Giarrizio  Maj  362nd  Massachusets  K  2nd Nov 1944  Warren B Corwin  Lt  362nd  New York  K  8th Nov 1944  Warren J Doranski  Lt  363rd  Illinois  M  8th Nov 1944  Robert Wiser  Lt  364th  Pennsylvania  K  16th Nov 1944  Sam C Fuller  Lt  362nd  Texas  K  18th Nov 1944  Walter N Perry  Lt  362nd  North Carolina  K  23rd Dec 1944  William T Gilbert  Lt  362nd  Connecticut  K  24th Dec 1944  Wendell D Helwig  Lt  363rd  Wisconsin  K  24th Dec 1944  William H Mooney  Lt  362nd  Georgia  K  24th Dec 1944  Harold D Chandler  Lt  362nd  California  K  30th Dec1944  Frederick C McCall  Lt  364th  Mississippi  K  10th Jan 1945  Richard A Anderson  Lt  362nd  New York  K  13th Jan 1945  Robert L Schlieker  Lt  362nd  Ohio  K  13th Jan 1945  William B Thompson  Lt  363rd  California  K  16th Jan 1945  Maurice E Gallant  Lt  362nd  Connecticut  M  19th Jan 1945  Herman H Delarger  Lt  362nd  New Jersey  M  19th Jan 1945  Walter E Corby  Lt  363rd  New Jersey  K  27th Jan 1945  Melvin Schueneman  S.Sgt  Crew Chief  Michigan  DA  27th Jan 1945  James W Browning  Capt  363rd  Kansas  M  9th Feb 1945  Holsey C Johnson Jnr  Lt  362nd  Montana  K  10th Feb 1945  Richard C Taylor  Lt  363rd  New York  K  23rd Feb 1945  Ralph E Eisert  Lt  364th  New York  K  27th Feb 1945  Robert R Hoffman  Lt  364th  New York  K  27th Feb 1945  Mathew Crawford  Lt  363rd  Pennsylvania  K  2nd Mar 1945  Patrick J Mallione  Lt  363rd  Connecticut  K  2nd Mar 1945  Alva C Murphy  Capt  364th  Tennessee  K  2nd Mar 1945  Otto D Jenkins  Lt  362nd  Texas  K  24th Mar 1945  Jacob F Giel  Lt  362nd  Illinois  M  3rd April 1945  Robert S Fifield  Capt  363rd  Michigan  K  3rd May 1945  Alfred W Bierweiller  Lt  362nd  Massachusets  K  21st May 1945  Manuel Soo  Lt  364th  California  K  29th May 1945  Louis Boudreau  Sgt  Ground crew  Louisiana  DA  Unknown date

‘They flew towards heaven as eagles’

Of the 82 men listed in our ‘Roll of Honour’

20% have no known graves and are remembered on the‘Walls of Missing’

at American Military Cemeteries in Cambridge, England and across Europe.