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Shaker Blue Four, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6376 flown by LT Louis T. Barron, 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France.
A 1938 graduate of Wilmore High School, Kansas, Barron first attended Oklahoma Panhandle State University, then transferred to Northwest Oklahoma State University. Enlisting September 1940 as an aircraft mechanic, he completed training at Chanute Field in July 1941 and entered the Air Cadet program at Kelly Field. He battled some early airsickness to eventually win his wings.
He married shortly before his deployment overseas, Lillian Marguerite Barron. KIA in engagement with FW-190s of JG-26 on 26 July, he crashed in flames near the hamlet of Rougemare. His badly charred and mutilated body was interred in a church cemetery at Landres; it was later re-buried in the American military cemetery at St. Andre-de-Eure, France on 4 June 1945.
As sometimes happened with combat losses following wartime marriages, Barron's widow appeared to completely sever ties with his parents, refusing to forward any information to them on her late husband's demise. Mr. & Mrs. Louis C. Barron repeatedly corresponded with the Quartermaster General on the location of their son's body, finally getting their son's remains transferred to Fort Gibson National Cemetery where they were buried on 26 April 1949.
Shaker Blue Four, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6376 flown by LT Louis T. Barron, 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France.
A 1938 graduate of Wilmore High School, Kansas, Barron first attended Oklahoma Panhandle State University, then transferred to Northwest Oklahoma State University. Enlisting September 1940 as an aircraft mechanic, he completed training at Chanute Field in July 1941 and entered the Air Cadet program at Kelly Field. He battled some early airsickness to eventually win his wings.
He married shortly before his deployment overseas, Lillian Marguerite Barron. KIA in engagement with FW-190s of JG-26 on 26 July, he crashed in flames near the hamlet of Rougemare. His badly charred and mutilated body was interred in a church cemetery at Landres; it was later re-buried in the American military cemetery at St. Andre-de-Eure, France on 4 June 1945.
As sometimes happened with combat losses following wartime marriages, Barron's widow appeared to completely sever ties with his parents, refusing to forward any information to them on her late husband's demise. Mr. & Mrs. Louis C. Barron repeatedly corresponded with the Quartermaster General on the location of their son's body, finally getting their son's remains transferred to Fort Gibson National Cemetery where they were buried on 26 April 1949.