WWII

Samuel Pickney Cain, Jr.

Rate / Rank
1st LT

Birthdate
December 30 1921

Date of Death
November 14 1944

Branch
USAAC

Active Duty Service
May 20 1942 - November 14 1944

Conflicts & Campaigns

North Africa; Italy

Significant Duty Stations

Enlisted; Lemoore Army Air Field, California. Received his "Wings" US Army Air Field, Yuma Arizona.
12th Air Force, 428th Bomb Squadron, 310th Bomb Group, North Africa, Italy

Decorations & Citations

POW Medal; Purple Heart, Distinguished Unit Citation August 27, 1943
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze stars

Notes

Army serial number 07-753-326. Born; Cairo, Georgia. Graduate of Cairo High School 1940 and two years at University of Georgia. B-25 bomber pilot who was wounded and captured when his bomber was forced down by enemy flack, while on a bomb run over Nazi occupied Northern Italy. He later died of his wounds in a German military hospital (Lazarett). Burial; Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.