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Rank and Name, Technical Sergeant Uhland S. Adair.
Unit/Placed in on, 321st Bomber Squadron, 90th Bomber Group Heavy.
Uhland is born in 1922 in Alabama.
Mother, Bessie J. Adair.
Uhland enlisted the U.S.Army Air Force in Alabama with service number # 14150043.
Uhland was KIA After a successful bombing run they were attacked by a Japanese fighter plane which damaged their #2 engine and eventually the B-24 caught fire. They crashed near Wewak on , he is honored with a Purple Heart, Air Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
Uhland’s crew-members and their position on-board the plane a B-24 were;
1st Lt. Oliver Sheenan Pilot
2nd Lt. Robert J. Rothwell Co Pilot
2nd Lt. James A. Gebbie Bombaedier
2nd Lt. Wendell P. Rawson Navigator
T/Sgt. Uhland S. Adair Engineer
T/Sgt. John J. Haggarty Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Thomas D. McNamara Top Turret Gunner
S/Sgt. Raymond M. Philips Left Waist Gunner
S/Sgt. Rocco W. Babbora Right Waist Gunner
S/Sgt. Richard D. Wall Tail Gunner
Uhland is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Wall of the missing.
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