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Richard Ira Bong
Major, US Army Air Corps

Born:   September 24, 1920 at Superior, WI
Entered Service:  
Poplar, WI
Date/Place of Action: 
October 10 - November 15, 1944 - Borneo and Leyte, Phil. Is.
Unit:  
49th Fighter Group, 5th Fighter Command, 5th Air Force
Presentation: 
At Tacloban Air Strip, Leyte, Phillipine Islands
     By General Douglas MacArthur on December 12, 1944

Date of Death:  
August 06, 1945
Buried at: 
Poplar Cemetery - Poplar, WI

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Horace Seaver Carswell, Jr.
Major, US Army Air Corps

Born:   July 16, 1916 at Fort Worth, TX
Entered Service:  
San Angelo, TX
Date/Place of Action: 
October 26, 1944 - South China Sea, China
Unit: 
374 Bombardment Squadron, 308th Bombardment Group, 14th Air Force
Presentation:
 
G.O. 14 - February 04, 1946
Date Of Death: 
October 26, 1944  (Killed In Action)
Buried at:
  Oakwood Cemetery - Fort Worth, TX

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Robert Edward Femoyer
Second Lieutenant, US Army Air Corps

Born:  October 31, 1921 at Huntington, WV
Entered Service:  
Jacksonville, FL
Date/Place of Action:  
November 02, 1944 - Merseburg, Germany
Unit: 
711th Bombardment Squadron, 447th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force
Presentation: 
G.O. 35 - May 09, 1945
Date of Death:  November 02, 1944  (Killed In Action)
Buried at: 
Greenlawn Cemetery - Jacksonville, FL

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Donald Joseph Gott
First Lieutenant, US Army Air Corps

Born:   June 03, 1923 at Arnett, OK
Entered Service:  
Arnett, OK
Date/Place of Action: 
November 09, 1944 - Saarbrucken, Germany
Unit:  
729th Bombardment Squadron, 452d Bombbardment Group, 8th Air Force
Presentation
G.O. 38 - May 16, 1945
Date of Death:  
November 09, 1944 (Killed In Action)
Buried at:   
Harmon Cemetery - Harmon, OK

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