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Technical Sergeant Walter P Back served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Walter served in World War II. Walter was 27 years old.
What Happened
T/Sgt Walter P. Back attended Middletown High school for 4 years and was a craneman. He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States at Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio on 27 April 1942. | | The airplane collided in mid-air with B-17 #42-3533. All crew members of both planes, twenty men in total, were killed.
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U.S. Army Air Forces
became the U.S. Air Force in 1947
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Cemetery
Netherlands American Cemetery
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Walter P Back
Technical Sergeant
U.S. Army Air Forces
368th Bombardment Squadron
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