Union County

 

Pvt. Herman Ray Sanneman

 

 

Herman Ray Sanneman was born in 1913 to Joseph H. and Myrtle M. Sanneman. He died May 18, 1942 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Creston, IA.

Pvt. Sanneman served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps, 44th Bomber Group, 66th Bomber Squadron aboard B-24D Liberator #41117 and was killed when his bomber crashed after takeoff from Barksdale Army Air Base in Louisiana, while departing for an anti-submarine patrol mission over the Gulf of Mexico.

Source: ancestry.com