Born: June 27, 1925
Staff Sergeant, United States Army Air Forces Service# 19172112 TAIL GUNNER,
BOEING B-17G FLYING FORTRESS #42-39892 401ST BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (HEAVY),
91ST BOMBER GROUP (H), EIGHTH AIR FORCE Date of Enlistment: November 28, 1942
Home or Place of Enlistment: Pocatello, Idaho Died: March 8, 1944 Buried: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands |
Based out of RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, S.Sgt Morby and three other crewmen were Killed in Action when their B-17 was shot down while conducting combat operations against Nazi Germany during World War II. The aircraft was struck by enemy planes, exploded and crashed near Einwinkel, seven miles West of Osterburg, Germany.
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