Rank and Name, Sergeant Lee E. Allen.

Unit/Placed in, 11^th Bomber Squadron.

Lee is born 1908 in Illinois.

Parents and Siblings, no record available.

Lee enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # 16004900.

Lee ’s Crew-members and position on-board the plane a B-17 were,

1st Lt.          Langdon D. Long               Pilot

1st Lt.          Robert N. Martin               Co Pilot

2nd Lt.         Fred S. Olson                    Bombardier

2nd Lt.         Eugene F. McSurk              Navigator

Sgt.              Lee E. Allen                      Engineer/Top Turret Gunner

Sgt.              Harrie L. Elson                  Waist Gunner

Sgt.              Fitch E.W. Sims                 Tail Gunner

Lee was KIA they nearly completed the mission, but on the way back the plane crashed in the Mountains in India on June 3, 1942,  he is honored with a Purple Heart, Air Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Lee is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/USAAF/11th_Bombardment_Group.html Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/