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Franklin Charles "Frank" Lathrope

 

USAAC   1st Lieutenant

Distinguished Flying Medal
Air Medal with 9 Oak Leaf Clusters

Flew P-38s with 94th FS, 1st FG, 15th AF, North Africa

Born 4 February 1919 in Blue Island, Illinois.
Married Leah Bodine Narland, 21 March 1942.
Production Engineer.
Enlisted 2 April 1942.
Serial number O-802042.
Winged 29 April 1943 at Shaw Field (Class 43-D).
Left the service 7 July 1945, Ft. Sheridan, Ill.

Worked at General Chemical in Blue Island, Illinois.
a Division of Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation.
Worked from 1945 until his death.

Died 22 December 1965 in an automobile accident in Chicago.

 

   Franklin Lathrope
 

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Franklin Lathrope

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Lathrope & friends
Raymond J. Geyman, Lathrope & Richard John Lee
   Franklin Lathrope

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Victories Include :

11 Mar 1944
29 Mar 1944
23 April 1944
29 April 1944
10 May 1944		 one Me109
one Me109
one Me109
one Me109
two Me109s		 destroyed
damaged
destroyed
destroyed
destroyed *

5 / 0 / 1

* Escort to Wiener Neustadt (#89).
After his 2 kills, Franklin was shot down by 109s.
He was rescued by partisans at Glina, Yugoslavia.
P-38J-15-LO  #43-28252 destroyed.

   Franklin Lathrope

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Franklin in 1945
Franklin in 1945 - about to start working at the chemical plant

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