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T/Sgt. Earl B. Groves
United States Army Air Force 703rd Bomb Squadron
from:Falls Creek,PA
(d.7th Sep 1944 )
T/Sgt. Earl B. Groves was a radio operator on the crew of Hot Rock. Piloted by 1st Lt. William J. Mowat, flying a B24-J, Serial #42-51532. This plane crashed north of Honeback, Germany.
Earl, aged 24 is listed along with the 118 Americans killed that day on the 703rd Squadron plaque upon the memorial Monument in the Hess State Forrest near Bard Hersfersfeld. Earl was in the 445th Bomb Group with James Stewart.