Young, Chester L. – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Corporal Chester L. Young.

Unit/Placed in, Air Corps, United States Air Force.

A.T.C (Air Transport Command)

Section of the The North Atlantic Air Ferry route was a series of Air Routes over the North Atlantic Ocean on which aircraft were ferried from the United States and Canada to Great Britain during World War II to support combat operations in the European Theater of Operations (ETO).

Chester is born approx. on 1917 in Kentucky.

Spouse, Carmen R. Young.

Chester enlisted the service in with service number # 32501216.

Chester‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane a B-24 were,

Flight Officer Gordon E. Robinson Pilot

Flight Officer Rudolph R. Vizzini Co Pilot

Flight Officer Thomas A. Stoback Navigator

2^nd Lt. Bernard R. Nies Bombardier

Sergeant Emil E. Pappenfuse Engineer/Gunner

Corporal Chester L. Young Radar Operator/Gunner

Corporal Calvin J. Hoff Top Turret Gunner

Corporal Bert Holland Left Waist Gunner

Corporal Charles A. Bullen Right Waist Gunner

Corporal John F. Buckley Tail Gunner

Chester died (no record) Plane took off at Labrador for a Ferring Mission to Europe but probably crashed in the American Sector and was never heard of on 4 Nov. 1944, he is honored with a Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Chester is buried/mentioned at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to,

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

National Historian