Durden William Looper - I1039 - Individual Information - ancestry, genealogy, pedigree tree

Durden William Looper ‎(I1039)‎

Surname: Looper
Given Names: Durden William

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 18 March 1923
Death: 6 August 1945 ‎(Age 22)‎ Hiroshima, Japan

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Birth	18 March 1923
Marriage	Private - about 1943 ‎(Age 19)‎
Death	6 August 1945 ‎(Age 22)‎ Hiroshima, Japan
Burial	3 November 1949 ‎(4 years after death)‎ St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Cemetery: 82 0 156, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Globally unique Identifier	BF4AAC036C1E5E41978833933264B854685D
Last Change	11 April 2009 - 15:55:06 - by: wt4y

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Wife	Private -
Daughter	Private -

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An excerpt from http://www.outsider.gol.com/magazine/septmber/hiroshima.html:
On July 28, 1945, thirty-three B24 Liberator bombers from Okinawa attacked and sank one of Japan's last battleships, the Haruna, in the heavily defended anchorage at Kure, thirty miles from Hiroshima. Two B24s, Taloa and Lonesome Lady, were shot down. The surviving crewmen were brought into Hiroshima where they were held, together with other captured American airmen, in the local Japanese military police headquarters by chance, less than eight hundred yards from where the Enola Gay's atom bomb was soon to explode. All the prisoners and their guards were killed, or died soon after.

Lt. Durden William Looper was on board the B24 Liberator Lonesome Lady.

The other crew members were:
2nd. Lt. James M Ryan 2nd Lt. Ralph Neal Sgt. Hugh Atkinson Sgt. Buford Ellison Cpl. John Long

see: http://www.interment.net/data/us/mo/stlouis/jeffbarr/l/jeffbarr_l12.htm for burial information

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Multimedia Object	Lt. Durden William Looper and other crew mwmbers of "Lonesome Lady". ‎(M349)‎
Multimedia Object	1039.jpg ‎(M348)‎
Multimedia Object	Plaque hanging at the POW museum in Andersonville, GA, USA ‎(M470)‎
Multimedia Object	The "Lonesome Lady", Durden William Looper's B-24 Bomber. ‎(M469)‎ Type: Photo
Multimedia Object	Durden William Looper in his uniform. ‎(M468)‎ Type: Photo