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t1ii♦tVf V4. WJVMajor Sumner ReederMajor Sumner Reeder, ldlled'in the or ash of an army trams portali'*, plane near ah army air'Base at Mi-i ami, FI el, on March, 19,.was one.#f j the highest ranking officers from j this area to Jose his life during tii©i war,..... .. ..1 Attached to the 17th ferrying !group at Fore- field, Great Bills, Mont., Major Reeder was* one of : four persons killed in a ctaBh at sea off Florida I^eys during, a routina j flight from ..the Homestead' .army.,,! base, Miami. The body was recov- S-f©rod. Saturday,. _______ .'The local officer held the dietin gulshed eerrlce cross fbj 'bringing ’i bac ka crippled B-17 bombey to an • ! English base after an'attack- on £ ‘ Stuttgart, Germany. He was Wound* ■ i ed also and received the purple ■heart award. ”A graduate of Rooseve'ft high **■; school in Bast Chicago, with the -j class of 1935, Major Reeder had j;moved to St. Louis to pursue a col-! lege course before entering service, i v His wife and mother still live 4^©re, with other relatives living In Ham*, mond. , . ;cnT- r
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East Chicago Calumet News
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1945
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