 World
War II
SSGT
Roy Lee Nichols
Army Air Forces
2nd
Bomber Group, Heavy, 49th
Bomber Squadron
B-17
- #42-29646
- Peg O'My Heart
(named after a song. I was unable to
find a photo of that exact plane.)
What
Happened that day.
11 Nov 1943
Service Number
17 Aug 1915 -11 Nov 1943
He grew up in Van Alstyne, Lived in Denison
at the time of his enlistment.
He went to Dallas to enlist.
Serving in the North African Theater.(which
included Italy.)
He was a top turret gunner. All 10 on board
died.
Their
bodies were lost in the Adriatic sea.
Parents: Roy Nichols & Josie Nichols
Wife: Loevia Adams Nichols
They had four children.
The Austin American
25 Dec 1943
List of the missing
What a miserable Christmas Day.
They often waited quite a while before they
declared them dead.
It was always hoped they were found or made it
to shore and taken prisoner or put in a
hospital somewhere and may make contact later.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
19 Dec 1943
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Tioga Herald
25 Aug 1938
This an article that probably doesn't belong
here but it's his history.
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1946
The loved ones left being have to complete
many tasks for the men who died over
the war years.
The trials just keep coming for their
families.
Besides estates, receiving their military
medals
and settling debts, estates and home sales
even. Life was changed.
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He is Memorialized :
Florence,
Italy
Grayson
County Military Page
Susan
Hawkins
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