Lester Nathaniel Weimer was born in 1921 in Pennsylvania. He resided in Baltimore, Maryland prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on January 25, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was noted as being employed in a machine shop and also as Married. He served as a Staff Sergeant and Left Waist Gunner on the B-17G #42-102552 "Horn's Hornets" aircraft, 339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

The plane took off from 138 Snetterton Heath, Norfolk, UK on a bombing mission over the oil storage facilities at Gennevilliers, a suburban area of Paris. While the B-17 inflicted major damage upon the target, Paris was surrounded with infamous flak, and two of the twenty-five B-17s were shot down, including the Horn's Hornets. His plane spun down after flak knocked off the entire tail assembly and crashed in the streets of Rue Pajol and Rue Ricquet, Paris. Seven members from his crew were Killed in Action and three were taken as prisoners.

SSGT Weimer was killed in the plane and his body fell out and landed in Gennevilliers. He is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.

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