The remains World War II Soldier U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Melvin B. Meyer will be interred May 26, at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis. Meyer was a bombardier serving aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber during a huge bombing mission over Leipzig, Germany, May 29, 1944, when the plane was shot down after enemy fighters attacked the bomber’s formation. Unable to escape the plane he was killed in the crash at age 25.
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