(Photo courtesy of Arthur Boggs)


Squadron Navigator Lieutenant Walter H. Boggs during flight school. He died of "tropical fever" on 29 October 1944 in Hollandia, New Guinea. It was also called "the crud." There is nothing about his death in the official history. He was brought back and buried on 27 June 1948 in the Romine Prarie Cemetery in Kell, Illinois. 


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