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2LT William Russell “Bill” Lane

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2LT William Russell “Bill” Lane

Birth
Texas, USA
Death
25 Nov 1943 (aged 26)
Little Dunmow, Uttlesford District, Essex, England
Burial
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section O Site 20
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MILITARY | SECOND LIEUTENANT | FIGHTER PILOT | 20TH FIGHTER GROUP
77th Fighter Squadron
Crashed near Little Dunmow, Essex on return from 1st mission on 25 Nov 1943 in P-38H #42-67032. Killed in Action (KIA).

Bill was the son of Dougan Clark Lane (1893-1979) and Pauline Bell Parks (1894-1969.
He married Virginia Carr Swann 7 Oct 1939 Ward County, Texas. He was 21, she was 17. They were living in Barstow, Ward County, Texas with their infant daughter, Martha, on the 1940 US Federal Census.

Enlisted in the Air Corp 7 Apr 1942, in Dallas, Texas
MILITARY | SECOND LIEUTENANT | FIGHTER PILOT | 20TH FIGHTER GROUP
77th Fighter Squadron
Crashed near Little Dunmow, Essex on return from 1st mission on 25 Nov 1943 in P-38H #42-67032. Killed in Action (KIA).

Bill was the son of Dougan Clark Lane (1893-1979) and Pauline Bell Parks (1894-1969.
He married Virginia Carr Swann 7 Oct 1939 Ward County, Texas. He was 21, she was 17. They were living in Barstow, Ward County, Texas with their infant daughter, Martha, on the 1940 US Federal Census.

Enlisted in the Air Corp 7 Apr 1942, in Dallas, Texas

Inscription

TEXAS
2 LIEUT
77 AAF FTR SQ
WORLD WAR II

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Returned from British Isles and reburied at Fort Sam on August 11, 1948

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