Name:
Dee LaVern “Verne” Troxell
Rank:
Technical Sergeant
Serial Number:
18184948
Unit:
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1943-12-30
State:
Texas
Cemetery:
Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France
Plot:
B
Row:
29
Grave:
53
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Radio Operator of the B-17 “Maid to Please”. Took off from Rattlesden in the UK to bomb factories in Ludwigshafen. Shot down by German fighters over Coudray Farm (between Berville and Henonville, France) at 1309 on December 30, 1943. Son of Sallie R. Troxell of Shamrock, Texas.