Name:
Nap King Perry
Rank:
Flying Officer
Serial Number:
J/26300
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-01-25
State:
Missouri
Cemetery:
Lessay Communal Cemetery, Lessay, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France
Plot:
Row:
A
Grave:
2
Decoration:
Comments:
Nap King Perry was born on December 28, 1916. He was the son of William Eli Perry and Ethel Jordan Perry.
Nap served in the #16 Operational Training Unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flying Officer during World War II. On January 25, 1944, his crew took off from RAF Upper Heyford on a leaflet-dropping operation over Granville, France. Shot down by flak, his Wellington # BK 501 aircraft crashed at sea near Cherbourg.