Elmer Paul Meier was born on February 18, 1918. He was the son of Fredrich Meier and Martha Koch Meier and was married to Dorothy Maxine Farmer Meier. Elmer served as a 2nd Lieutenant and Co-Pilot on B-24 "Repulser" (#41-28843), 715th Bomber Squadron, 448th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was Killed In Action when their B-24 was attacked by heavily-armed ME 410 German fighters and crashed.

On the 22nd April 1944, 26 United States Air Force planes took off from Seething airfield to bomb targets in Nazi Germany, but B-24 Liberator 843 “Repulser” was hit as it returned to base and crashed in fields near Kessingland. Part of the 715th Squadron, the men on board were on their third mission after arriving at the south Norfolk air station in the early spring. Hitler’s Luftwaffe took full advantage of its unusually late return to the UK on that fateful night, caused by poor weather before take-off, and sent a force of heavily-armed ME 410 fighters to intercept the bombers.

2Lt Meier is now buried in the Shattuck Cemetery, Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma, USA.

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