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Submitted: 6/14/20 • Approved: 6/15/20 • Last Updated: 6/18/20 • R325505-G0-S3
FIRST LIEUTENANT US Air Force
PILOT US Air Force 338th Bomber Squadron 96th Bomber Group
August 19, 1920 - July 29, 1943
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Purple Heart
1st Lt Cecil Orel Walters was on his 22nd air raid mission over Germany when he died. He was pilot of the B-17 "Little Caesar." Returning from the mission, his plane collided with another B-17 over the English Channel near Cromer, England, about three miles from the coast. The crews of both planes (11 men) were lost and their bodies never recovered.
Listed on the
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
PLOT Tablets Of The Missing
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