S/Sgt. James T. Lee

Parents: Gregg & Mary Lee

Siblings: 2 sisters, 3 brothers

Hometown:

    - Berkley, Illinois

Education:

    - Sunnyside Grade School

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Graduating Class: 1937

            - left school before graduation

Enlisted:

    - 23 December 1941

        - U.S. Army Air Corps

Serial Number: 16036606

Training: 

    - Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri

Unit: 522nd Fighter-Bomber Squadron,  27th Bombardment Group, 12th Army Air Force

Stationed:

    - Salon, France

        - 30 August 1944

Engagements:

    - flew almost 100 missions over France and Germany

Died:

    - 11 September 1944

        - aircraft accident over France

        - unit was being relocated to Loyettes, France

Buried: 

    - 31 January 1949

        - Camp Butler National Cemetery - Springfield, Illinois

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