U.S. Army Air Forces · United States 
Technical Sergeant Joe Allen Holder served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Joe served in World War II. Joe was 21 years old.
T/Sgt Joe A. Holder graduated from Arkadelphia High School in 1940. | | The airplane aborted the mission before reaching the French coast en route to the target. #1 engine was out, and an excessive amount of oil was being lost. Information concerning the exact trouble was not definitely known. | | The pilot continued to struggle with the aircraft to keep it straight and ordered the radio operator to send a message. The radio operator sent an urgent message and an S.O.S. The crew was ordered to bail out. | | The aircraft, when last seen by crew members, descending in parachutes, was under control in a slight dive with the left wing low, heading about 270 degrees between six and four thousand feet. | | At sea, destroyers were standing by and were able to rescue three crew members. | | Sailors of the destroyers could see the aircraft gliding down with the right wing low and crash at a position of about 50°06N-00°38W. | | Seven men were killed. | | He is remembered at the Golden Cemetery in De Gray, Arkansas.
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