WWII
Joe Robert Lee, Jr.
Rate / Rank
2nd Lt
Birthdate
April 18 1917
Date of Death
November 1 2001
Branch
USAAC
Active Duty Service
April 2 1942 - November 14 1945
Conflicts & Campaigns
- Europe
- B-17 42-30309 Nicknamed "Raging Red; Target ball bering plant Schweinfurt Shot Down by enemy aircraft.crashed five miles south of Wetziat, Germany
- Pilot Jim Sexton POW Co-Pilot John Goettel POW Navigator Bill LaDow POW Bombardier Joe Lee POW Flight engineer"Top Turrent Gunner Preston Wells POW Radion Operator Vince Leonard POW Ball Truuent Gunner Ed Schad POW Waist Gunner Jim Lekey POW Tail Gunner Joe Sheooard POW Waist Gunner Talmage Naron KIA
Significant Duty Stations
- Inducted; Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee Florida.
- Osborn Prov Group 525th Bomb Squadron 379thy Bomb Group, US Army Air Base Kimbolton, England
- Bombardier B-17 "Raging Red" 42-303 Last known address 702 Barcia Drive Pensacola, Florida.
Decorations & Citations
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Air Medal;
- Prisoner of War Medal, Air Medal
Notes
SSN 249-14-5876 US Army Serial Number 07676303 Home of record (1940) 208 1st Street NE, Cairo, Georgia. Taken Prisoner April 17, 1943. Prison: Stalag Luft #3 Sagan-Silia Bavaria, moved to Nuremberg-Langasser. Liberated June 1945. Former lumber grader for the C. W. Thomas Lumber Company Grady County, Georgia sawmill. Received wings and commission, San Angelo, Texas, April 1, 1943. Died Pensacola, Florida. Buried; Holy Cross Cemetery Pensacola, Florida.