2nd Lt. Walter Willard Ingalls

Born: 15 January 1922 - Iowa

Mother: Willard Ingalls & Alice Bell-Ingalls

Siblings: 1 sister

Home:

    - 816 North Third Avenue - Maywood, Illinois

Education:

    - Westchester Grade School - Westchester, Illinois

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Class of 1938

    - Iowa State College

        -  Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Engineering - 1942

Inducted:

    - 1 January 1943

        - U.S. Army Air Corps

Serial Number: O&482969

Training: 

    - Pratt Army Airfield, Kansas

    - Salinas Army Airfield, California

    - Lowry Army Airfield, Colorado

Unit: 25th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bomber Group (Very Heavy)

Plane: B-29 Identification Number: 42-24589  Name: "Calamity Jane"

Engagements:

    - Bombing missions

        - Manchuria

        - Japan

        - Singapore

Missing in Action:

    - 1 February 1945

        - Declared Dead - 1 February 1946

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery, Manila, Philippine Islands

Medals:

    - Purple Heart

    - Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

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