(Photo courtesy of Arthur Boggs)


Aviation Cadet (and later Navigator for the squadron) Walter H. Boggs in flight school. He died of "tropical fever" on 29 October 1944 in Hollandia, New Guinea. It was also called "the crud." He was brought back and buried on 27 June 1948 in the Romine Prarie Cemetery in Kell, Illinois.


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