Hicks Wayne D.

Monuments

Name:

Wayne D. Hicks

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-704292

Unit:

555th Bomb Squadron, 386th Bomb Group

Date of Death:

1944-10-05

State:

Iowa

Cemetery:

Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart

Comments:

Bombadier of the B-26 Yankee Gorilla, took off from Bernes sur Oise to bomb the German barracks in Duren, Germany. Crashed due to mechanical problems by Rethondes, France. Hicks and three others were killed while two crewmembers survived. Buried in a communal plot with his crew.