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Horace Allan Lawler

Paris, IL

World War II

College: Engineering

Service Branch: Air Force

Rank: First Lieutenant

Date of Birth: 06/01/1919

Date of Death: 02/08/1946

Lt. Lawler served with the 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. He was a P-40 pilot missing in action when his plane disappeared into a cloud while flying a mission from India to Burma. He is listed as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, May, 1946, and Web site above

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