Alexander Graham Bruce was born in 1920 in Missouri. He resided in St. Louis City County, Missouri prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on April 6, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Salesperson and also as Single, without dependents. Alexander served as a First Lieutenant and Navigator on B-17G #42-107076, 563rd Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

B-17G #42-107076 took off from RAF Knettishall with a target of the Focke-Wulf Aircraft factory at Poznan, Poland. While on this mission they were hit by enemy flak and severely damaged. Alexander was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-17 crashed, due to the damage, into the Baltic Sea seven miles Southeast of Nykobing, near Boto, Denmark during the war. His name is commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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