Name:
Paul Main Jr Overfield
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
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Unit:
1387 Base Unit, 15th Air Force
Date of Death:
1945-03-03
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
Stroudsburg Cemetery, Stroudsburg,Pennsylvania,
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2LT Paul Overfield was born on December 9, 1924 and was from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.. On March 3, 1945 he was a crewmember ( Pilot) on B-17G (44-88325) of the 1379th Base Unit, 15th Air Force ferrying their aircraft from Iceland to Wales when the plane crashed in bad weather on the Scottish peak of Beinn Edra on the Trotternish Ridge on the isle of Skye near the town of Staffin. The plane was destined of the base Gioa del Colle for operations in Italy with the 15th Air Force. All nine members of the crew perished. The town of Staffin remembers the crew with a plaque on the town war memorial and with a plaque at the crash