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- Buffalo NY Courier Express - 9/5/1945
Listed as missing for more than
a year, Lieut. Richard E. Boye
now is presumed to be dead, according
to a
War D e p a r t m
e n t message
to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs.
E d w a r d H.
boye, 372 Parkdale
Ave.
The B-17 pilot
last was reported
August 25,
1944, in t h e
vicinity of his
bombing target,
Pecnemunde, in
N o r t h e astern
Germany, where
heavy e n e my
antiaircraft fire was encountered.
He was a graduate of Lafayette
High School and the University of
Michigan. In the infantry for 1-1/2
years, he became a first lieutenant
and then transferred to the Air
Corps, receiving his pilot's wings
at Columbus, (O.) Army Air Field.
He completed about 17 missions
over Europe and held the Air
Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
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