Veterans' Memorial Project

William Everett Geist

Belleville, IL

World War II

College: Communications

Graduation Year: Attended 1942

Service Branch: Air Force

Rank: Tech Sergeant

Date of Birth: 08/04/1924

Date of Death: 04/23/1945

Affiliations: Sigma Nu

Sgt. Geist was a B-17 radio operator, killed in a non-operational plane crash on the Isle of Man. He went overseas in October, 1944.

-taken from Illinois Alumni News, July, 1945

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