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| Lt. Auline Plumlee was a B-25 pilot in the 321st Bombardment Group in North Africa. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155530998/eldon-a_-plumlee https://www.ww2online.org/image/view-looking-over-unto-b-25-mitchell-bomber-flight-unknown-location-1943-or-1945 |
Eldon Auline Plumlee never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on February 29, 1920 in Texas. His parents Isaac and Zola were born in the Indian Territory and Texas, respectively. His father worked as an oil well tool dresser, a post office postmaster, and an oil field worker. Auline had an older sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. By 1940 Auline had completed one year of college and was still living at home. He worked as a pipeline employee.
He entered the Army Air Forces in December 1941. He became a first lieutenant and a B-25 pilot in the 448th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Group. The 321st BG arrived in Algeria in mid-March of 1943.
In April, the 321st BG's targets were mainly in North Africa to support the Allied effort to remove the Germans from Tunisia.
On April 2, 1943 Lt. Plumlee was killed on what was only his sixth mission. It was probably a non-combat related death.
His grave is at Pioneer Cemetery in Eastland County, Texas.
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