S/Sgt WILLIAM N. CALDWELL, 11054417 KIA

STAFF SERGEANT WILLIAM N. CALDWELL, 11054417 KIA US Army Air Corps. Sergeant Caldwell attended Crowell Grammar School and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1938. He was employed at the Goldberg Shoe Company when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on July 1, 1942. After initial processing at Miami Beach, Florida, he was  assigned to Scott Field, Ill., where he trained as a radio operator and qualified for duty as a member of a fighter bomber crew. He was then assigned to Alamogordo, N. M., and in June, 1943, was sent to Italy. He was assigned to the 457th Bombardment Squadron soon after arriving he participated in the invasion at Messina. While serving as aerial gunner on a B-24 bomber over Messina, his plane was struck by flak and seen to go down. This engagement occurred July 14, 1943, and he was listed as missing in action on that date. A year later he was officially listed as dead. He is survived by his foster mother, Mrs. Fannie Granville, 31 ¼ Belmont Ave. 

1- Haverhill Massachusetts – Haverhill  in World War Two