William Hubert Wallace, Jr. was born on August 23, 1918. He was the son of William H. Wallace, Sr. and Willie L. Wallace of Dallas, TX. He graduated from Sunset High School and attended John Tarleton Agricultural College. He was working for the Sun Oil Company at the time he volunteered for the Army Air Forces in 1942.

During the war, he was the pilot of a Liberator bomber and had flown ten combat missions, with his plane being credited with the sinking of an enemy vessel of considerable size. He was killed returning from his eleventh mission while piloting B-24J #42-100275. They were unable to land at their China base due to an enemy raid taking place, and by the time it was clear to land they had run out of fuel. While he piloted the plane he had his crew bail out, but when he jumped he was too low to have his parachute deploy. While all other crew members survived, he was killed. He is now buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

2Lt Wallace 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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