John Lee "Jack" FREY

1922 - 1943  (21 years)

• Name	John Lee "Jack" FREY
  Born	4 Jun 1922	New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military	(ENLISTED 10/7/1942)  [2]
  	T/Sgt, Radio Operator, 328 Bomb Sqdn, 93 Bomb Gp, US Army, WW II, Europe (KIA, Air Medal, Purple Heart)
  	Following his induction into the Army in Oct 1942, Sgt Frey attended radio school at Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Casper, Wyoming, and gunnery school at Kingman, Arizona, where he received his wings. He was deployed to the European Theater as a radio operator on a B-24 Liberator Bomber. On Nov 13 1943, while returning from a mission over Bremen, Germany, accompanying aircraft received a radio message from his plane advising that they were about to make a crash landing. But their position was not given, and their aircraft and personnel were never recovered. A memorial for T/Sgt John L. Frey is found among the Tablets of the Missing at the Camridge American Cemetery in England. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
  Census	1930, 1940	New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV
  Education	Doddridge Co High School  [3]
  Occupation	clerk at Markey Company of West Union  [3]
  Died	13 Nov 1943	Germany   [2]
  Buried	(TABLETS OF MISSING)	Cambridge American Cemetery, England   [2, 4]
  Notes	Following his induction into the Army in Oct 1942, Sgt Frey attended radio school at Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Casper, Wyoming, and gunnery school at Kingman, Arizona, where he received his wings. He was deployed to the European Theater as a radio operator on a B-24 Liberator Bomber. On Nov 13 1943, while returning from a mission over Bremen, Germany, accompanying aircraft received a radio message from his plane advising that they were about to make a crash landing. But their position was not given, and their aircraft and personnel were never recovered. A memorial for T/Sgt John L. Frey is found among the Tablets of the Missing at the Camridge American Cemetery in England. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.
  Person ID	I79434	Doddridge County Roots
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Henry Silas FREY,   b. 16 Jan 1881, Fink, Lewis Co, WV ,   d. 16 Apr 1969, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV  (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Mary Lucy AHOUSE,   b. 9 Apr 1888, Doddridge Co, WV ,   d. Mar 1978  (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F33870	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Jun 1922 - New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Buried - (TABLETS OF MISSING) - Cambridge American Cemetery, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

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• Sources

  [S2569] West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com). [S2582] West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives Database, (http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/wvvetmem.html). [S14] Obituary. [S2590] American Battle Monuments Commission, (http://www.abmc.gov).