Person:Durden Looper (1)

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Durden William Looper
b.18 Mar 1923 Sebastian, Arkansas, United States
d.6 Aug 1945 Hiroshima, Japan
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Name Durden William Looper
Gender Male
Birth[1] 18 Mar 1923 Sebastian, Arkansas, United States
Death[1] 6 Aug 1945 Hiroshima, Japan
Burial[1] 3 Nov 1949 Lemay, St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Missouri, United StatesSection 82 Site 156, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Other? In-laws: Alva Kurtz and Elsie Hearn (1)

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 Ryan2nd Lt. Ralph NealSgt. Hugh AtkinsonSgt. Buford EllisonCpl. John Long

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

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2LT Durden William Looper, in Find A Grave.
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