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Dupuis Joseph C.

Name:
Joseph C. Dupuis
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
Unit:
792nd Bomber Squadron, 468th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
1944-06-16
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
Jefferson Barracks National Cem., Missouri
Plot:
Section 82
Row:
Grave:
209
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:

Joseph C. Dupuis was born in 1922 in Massachusetts. He resided in Middlesex County, Massachusetts prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 16, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Machinists apprentice and also as Married. Joseph served as a Sergeant and Right Waist Gunner on B-29 #42-6230, 792nd Bomber Squadron, 468th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

B-29 #42-6230 took off from Pengshan, China on a bombing mission over Japan. They were shot down over Wakamatsu Fukuoka, Japan by a Japanese fighter plane. This aircraft and crew had the distinction of being the first B-29 shot down over Japan. All eleven crew members were Killed in Action on this mission along with one civilian. He was originally interred overseas and was later repatriated in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA on August 8, 1949 in a common grave with his crew.

Joseph was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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