Martin, Wallae R., 1stSgt

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Home Town Chicago	Last Address Hickam Field, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii
Casualty Date Dec 07, 1941
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Hawaii	Conflict World War II/Asian-Pacific Theater
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Honolulu, Hawaii	Wall/Plot Coordinates Section O Site 113

 

1st Sgt. Wallae Martin was killed in action on 7 December 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.( Earlier career information to be determined.)

He was assigned to the "Grey Geese",  Hq and Hq Squadron, 11th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field. THe 11th Bomb Group had been activated on Hickham on 1 January 1940. The first B-17 aircraft arrived on base in April-May,  1940. Hickham was the principal army airfield at the beginning of the War.

On Sunday Morning, 7 December, the unit had just returned from two weeks of field maneuvers. Nearly all of the 11th's armament and maintenance crews were killed in the first bomb drops of the Japanese as they passed over Hangar 11. Others were killed in the new barracks which was a target, reportedly received the most damage of buidlings on Oahu.

Originally interred in Scholfield Barracks Cemetery, his remains were re-interned in the Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.