Flight Officer Weese was born in Ontario Oregon, he signed the draft on 1 Jul 1941 in Oregon and was called to service in Portland on 9 Nov 1941. He died in Bowman Field Louisville, Kentucky.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx71b965k#page/4/mod... (pg 4)
1st Lt. Walker was born in Vida Oregon, and was a B-17 Navigator. He was survived by his parents and six sisters.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx719t230#page/16/mo... (pg 16)
2nd Lt. Trask was born in Oregon, he signed the draft on 16 Feb 1942 while attending Oregon State College. He was a B-24 Co-Pilot with the 8th Air Force, 93rd Bomber Group, 330th Bomber Squadron. He was killed somewhere in England. He was survived by his wife and parents.
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx71bm360#page/12/mo... (pg 12)
1st Lt. Thienes was Born in Eugene Oregon, he signed the draft on 30 Jun 1942 and was called into service in Portland on 27 Feb 1943. He served with the 787 Bomb Group, and died in a B-24 crash when his aircraft crashed into a fog bank on the side of a mountain in Italy.
Capt. Schoenfeld served for two years in the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska during WWII. During his plane trip home, both engines of the plane he was on failed. This resulted in a crash that killed Capt. Schoenfeld on Christmas eve 1944.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115866795
https://www.oregondigital.org/catalog/oregondigital:fx71b966v#page/38/mo... (pg 5, 37, 38)
Died when his B-25 rolled in flight and plunged into the Swamp roughly 15 miles NW of Savannah. Death Certificate says cause of death was “Complete Carbonization of Body.”
He died in a plane crash on his way home to Ohio from the war.
Died in a plane crash.
Capt. Reuter was the pilot of P-51 Mustang #44-7285 in fighter group three in england. Capt. Reuter went MIA on September 10, 1944 after bailing out into enemy occupied territory. He made his way to england and returned to active duty. On April 17th, 1944 he went out on a mission as deputy squadron commander, leading a group of P-51s. Capt. Raymond F. Reuter was killed in action on a mission to then Czechoslovakia. His plane was hit by anti-aircraft defence in the vicinity of Ceske Budejovice, south of Prague.
