First Lt, WILBER E. LONGSHORE O736711 KIA 

First Lieutenant, WILBER E. LONGSHORE O-736711KIA US Army Air Corps. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Longshore of Malone, New York. He was born on May 13, 1917 at Lisbon, New York. After graduation from Lisbon High School, he became an attendant at Rockland and Pilgrim State Hospitals. He was inducted on January 20, 1941 and within a year was sent to Air Force Bombardier-Navigator Schools. He was connected with the 415th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group. Prior to Pearl Harbor he was with the Medical Corps at Fort Hancock, N. J., and Fort Dix, N. J., until March 1942, when he passed the Air Cadet Test and was sent to Maxwell Field, Ala. He then studied at the Madison Institute of Aeronautics at Jackson, Miss., and later at Santa Ana, Cal., and Kirkland Field, N. M., where he earned his commission and wings as an aerial bombardier. This occurred by early 1943. He was next at Salem Field, La., and became a qualified navigator. Then came combat training at Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, Tex. Flying from the West on September 8, 1943 he dipped his wings over the homestead at Malone, N. Y., on his flight to the European battlefront. Having been based in North Africa, he was reported missing in action over Austria on a mission on November 2, 1943. Lt. Longshore participated in a mission to Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, and was last seen as the plane went down in the target area after having been damaged in an attack by enemy fighter planes. After diligent search the War Department announced him dead on August 16, 1945. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife, Marjorie Mary Longshore, a little son, Wilber E. Longshore, Jr., and a brother, Charles Longshore of Malone, N. Y.

First Lieutenant, WILBER E. LONGSHORE O-736711KIA US Army Air Corps. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Longshore of Malone, New York. He was born on May 13, 1917 at Lisbon, New York. After graduation from Lisbon High School, he became an attendant at Rockland and Pilgrim State Hospitals. He was inducted on January 20, 1941 and within a year was sent to Air Force Bombardier-Navigator Schools. He was connected with the 415th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group. Prior to Pearl Harbor he was with the Medical Corps at Fort Hancock, N. J., and Fort Dix, N. J., until March 1942, when he passed the Air Cadet Test and was sent to Maxwell Field, Ala. He then studied at the Madison Institute of Aeronautics at Jackson, Miss., and later at Santa Ana, Cal., and Kirkland Field, N. M., where he earned his commission and wings as an aerial bombardier. This occurred by early 1943. He was next at Salem Field, La., and became a qualified navigator. Then came combat training at Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, Tex. Flying from the West on September 8, 1943 he dipped his wings over the homestead at Malone, N. Y., on his flight to the European battlefront. Having been based in North Africa, he was reported missing in action over Austria on a mission on November 2, 1943. Lt. Longshore participated in a mission to Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, and was last seen as the plane went down in the target area after having been damaged in an attack by enemy fighter planes. After diligent search the War Department announced him dead on August 16, 1945. He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife, Marjorie Mary Longshore, a little son, Wilber E. Longshore, Jr., and a brother, Charles Longshore of Malone, N. Y.

 

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