Backus, William E. – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Sergeant William E. Backus.

Unit/Placed in, 177th Engineer General Service Regiment.

William is born approx. on 18 Sep. 1918 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Father, Vernon E. Backus.

Mother, Beatrice (Inman) Backus.

William enlisted the service in Florida with service number # 20428352.

William‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane a C-47 were,

Mr. Roy Proebstle, pilot,

Mr. Peter Blivens copilot,

Pvt. James A. George Jr. Radio Operator

Mr. Carl V. Harris Passenger

Lt. Athel L. Gill Passenger

SIC. Bernard J. Ortego Passenger

CWO Floyd M. Appleman Passenger

Sgt. William E. Backus Passenger

Ma. j Rudolph F. Bostelman Passenger

Lt. Orlando J. Buck Passenger

Cpl. Charles Dykema Passenger

Pvt. Charles E. Ellis Passenger

T-5. Maurice R. Gibbs Passenger

Pvt. Anthony Kasper Passenger

PFC. Alfred S. Madison Passenger

Pvt. Howard A. Pevey Passenger

PFC. Clifford E. Phillips Passenger

T-4. Timothy D. Stevens Passenger

T-5. Edward S. Stoering Passenger

William died in the plane crash, the aircraft hit the slope of Mt Deception located in the Denali National Park, Alaska on 18 Sep. 1944, he is honored with a Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

William is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

He also has a Memorial Grave at, Lake Wales Cemetery, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-douglas-c-47a-90-dl-mt-deception-19-killed

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and 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