Walker, Bert Engle – ww2 Pacific

Name and rank, Technician 3rd Grade (Sgt) Bert Engle Walker.

Unit/Placed in, Bombardment Group (Light).

We have no information in our records of individual soldiers. Those are kept at the Army Personnel Center in St Louis, MO. Unfortunately, many of the WWII records burnt down in a fire.

Bert E. Walker was born on 13 January 1914 in Adams Burg, De Kalb County, Alabama.

Father, William Bouregard Walker.

Mother, Eliza Clifton (Lindsey) Walker.

Sister(s), Pearl Iona and Mary Sarah Catherine Walker.

Brother(s), Daniel David Walker.

Spouse, Bonny (Holbrook) Walker.

Bert E. Walker was a Serial Engineer/Gunner aboard a B-24 in a Bombardment Group.

Bert was Killed in Action when they Crashed Landed on the Airport Bari, Italy, back from a Bomber Mission to Bratislava Oilrefinery in Slovakia, on 1945, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European, Middle Eastern, African Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

And he is buried at Liberty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Adamsburg, DeKalb County, Alabama.

Thanks to,

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR3V-QGF

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com