MIA KIA

Corporal Edmond F. Anzalone, 30, a flying photographer, was killed in action January 7, 1945, while taking off for an photo recon mission in a B-29 from Dushkundi base in India. Shortly after take off the airplane crashed and burned. No parachutes were seen and all aboard where killed. Cpl. Anzalone operated a hair-dressing shop in Ardmore, PA, before he...

First Lieutenant Hampden Wallace Harding, bomber pilot and holder of the Air Medal for more than 300 combat missions, was killed March 13 in fighting over Hainan Strait, China. His plane was witnessed to have been struck by tracers in the cockpit and navigation area by Japanese Zero fighters during a window of time when the bombing mission was without...

Walter S. Polchlopek\'s wife and baby son. His son as a young child. His son as a proud member of the ROTC--but as a sole surviving son of a war loss, he was in fact not eligible for ROTC, and and was eventually removed. ---INCOMPLETE DRAFT--- In progress--- Walter S. Polchlopek, Corporal, was lost on May 20, 1944, over the...

Clarence Anderson on base stateside during military training. Clarence Anderson with family during his period of training. Clarence I. Anderson, Pvc., Service No. 19059691, in the back row in uniform in 1943, in Seattle, WA, with his younger brother and three younger sisters, as well as his mother Ester (far left) and father Ivan (second from the right). Clarence went...

T/Sgt. Harold D. Robertson (inset in image), ASN 17052777, disappeared during an L-5 flight on 7 May 1944. (Also in the image is Rex Davis, and Floyd Whitney; image taken at Desert Army Air Base, California, summer 1943. Image provided by 5th Liaison Squadron Flight Line Chief R. J. Koppel.) Entered military service from Clay County, Arkansas. Admitted to hospital...

Two US flyers catch rays in Jorhat, India, 1944. On the right, Loyal S Marrs Jr. served his country in World War II with the 1330th AFBU. Sadly killed on a flight. In the CBI. Photo from Chick Marrs Quinn.

Ewald Anton Mast was born in Germany on December 3rd, 1922. He is the son of Albert and Rosa Karscher Mast and the oldest of three siblings. His younger brother Curt Albert Mast was born on March 1924 and is married with three children, Curt is also a WWII veteran and served as an electrician second class aboard the USS...

Leon F. Zombeck, MIA-KIA from the CBI. If anyone has further information to provide for his memorial, please contact pat@rshonor.org. From National WWII Memorial: BRANCH OF SERVICE U.S. Army Air Forces HOMETOWN Moon Run, PA HONORED BY Bonita Bialowas Titus, Niece ACTIVITY DURING WWII KILLED IN ACTION, PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS.

Joseph Petrella, MIA-KIA from the CBI. Anyone with more information on Mr. Petrella, please contact pat@rshonor.org. There is a great story about the loss of Mr. Petrella\'s flight at http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tibet.htm. From the New York Times, January 7, 1998: Remains of Crash Victim From \'44 Will Be Buried A coffin with the partial remains of a United States Army corporal whose...

Joseph C. Rich, MIA-KIA from the CBI. Anyone with more information on Mr. Rich, please contact Pat at pat@rshonor.org. Info from postings by Lisa Phillips: B-24 "Maxwell House II" Serial Number 42-73245 USAAF Crew 2nd Lt. Joseph C. Rich (POW/KIA) Crashed November 27, 1943 Mission History Shot down on Mission B. Rich was taken prisoner in Rangoon Prison. Died in...