Sgt. Larsen, 21, Killed in Africa
Technical Sgt. Lester M. Larsen, 21, died March 16 in the north African area as the result of an airplane accident, according to word received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Larsen, 420 South Seventeenth street. He has been overseas since November.
Young Larsen was under Maj. Gen. Jimmie Doolittle at Pendleton, Ore., but was attending gunnery school in Panama City, Fla., at the time Doolittle’s squadron left to bomb Tokio (sic).
He was graduated from Thomas Jefferson high school in 1940, entered the air corps the following August.
Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Jack G. of Chicago, and Rudolph of Omaha; a sister, Mrs. Emily Hindelang, Buffalo, N. Y.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, April 15, 1945, Page 3
Lester M. Larsen was born Aug. 12, 1921 to Jacob and Anna Frances Tissick Larsen. He died Mar. 16, 1943 and is buried in Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, NE.
Sgt. Larsen served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Source: ancestry.com
