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CPL Wallace Bryce Martin Sr
17 Aug 1921 – 25 Oct 1944
| Birth | 17 Aug 1921 |
| Death | 25 Oct 1944 |
| Cemetery | Keokuk National Cemetery Keokuk , Lee County , Iowa , USA |
| Added by | Sam Pennartz on 18 May 2021 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40876465 |
Bio
"Killed In Action" when his B-29, minutes after taking off from the airfield at Chengdu, China at night, crashed during the war. They were taking off on a bombing mission to an aircraft plant in Omura, Japan. Airmen who perished on B-29 #42-24504: Barber, Harold W ~ Capt, Co-Pilot, NJ Coburn, Paul H ~ T/Sgt, Radar Operator, TX Ebel, Boyd W ~ 2nd Lt, Flt Eng, NE Fowler, John W ~ S/Sgt, Left Gunner, KS Hanscom, Argyle E ~ 1st Lt, Navigator, NH Martin, Wallace B ~ Corp, CFC, MO McDonald, Franklin J ~ 2nd Lt, Bombardier, CO Parsons, Edward F ~ Major, Pilot, CT Pfeifer, Louis L . ~ Sgt, Radio Operator, FL Puckett, Rube E, Jr ~ T/Sgt, Tail Gunner, AL Wood, Warren F ~ S/Sgt, Right Gunner, NE Bio & Crew Report by: Russell S. "Russ" Pickett ~ Joplin News Herald, Joplin Missouri Nov 8, 1944 Galena, Kans., Nov 8. -- Corporal Wallace Bryce Martin, 23, years old, radio operator on a B-28 Super-fortress, was killed in action in China on Oct 25, according to information received yesterday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Martin, Sr. who live east of Galena. Martin, who was home on a brief furlough Sep 21, had been in the service about two years. He received his basic training at Sioux Falls, S. D., attended radio training school in Philadelphia, and received additional training at Madison, Wis., and Clovis, N. M. The last news from him was a letter written Oct 19, in India, and it is presumed that he had been stationed there about a week when he was killed. He had lived in the Galena vicinity all his life. Surviving, besides his parents, are his widow, Mrs. Allyne Martin, Joplin route 3; a small son, Wallace Bryce Martin; four sister, Mrs Alfred Rice, Mrs. George Shaw, Mrs. Raymond Cagle and Mrs. George Starks, all of Galena; two brothers, Noah Martin, Jr., Joplin route 3, and Walter Martin of of Trona California. Submitted by SjM, No. 48638216
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CPL, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
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- Joseph Clair Martin 1900–1900
- Margaret Rose Martin Rice 1901–1983
- Sarah Ohnes Martin Shaw 1904–1989
- Verna Rebecca Martin Cagle 1906–1989
- Noah Wesley Martin Jr 1908–1993
- Nadine Olive "Naydean" Martin Hudson 1911–1941
- Walter A. Martin 1915–2007
- Audrea WaDonna "Audrey" Martin Stark 1917–1956
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