Allee, Donald Wayne, 1st Lt

Fallen

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Service Details

Final Rank
First Lieutenant

Last MOS
AAF MOS 1058-Pilot, Night Fighter, Two-Engine

Last MOS Group
Pilot (Officer)

Primary Unit
1944-1944, IX Tactical Air Command

Service Years
1942 - 1944

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Indiana

Year of Birth
1921

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Casualty Info

Home Town Hammond, Indiana	Last Address Florennes/Juzaine Airfield (A-78), Belgium

Casualty Date Dec 19, 1944
Cause Non Hostile- Died Other Causes	Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Belgium	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Henri-Chapelle, Belgium	Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot G Row 8 Grave 15

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	2013, World War II Fallen

Ribbon Bar

Unit Assignments


	1943-1944, AAF MOS 1058, 422nd Night Fighter Squadron
	1944-1944, IX Tactical Air Command

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1944-1944 WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)
	1944-1944 WWII - European Theater of Operations/Ardennes Alsace Campaign (1944-45)

My Aircraft/Missiles


	1943-1943, A-20 Havoc
	1943-1944, P-61 Black Widow

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

He enlisted in the USAAF in 1942, trained in the US, then flew combat missions in Europe in P-61 Black Widow night fighters. He was credited with 1 probable shoot-down of a JU-88.
He and his radar observer, T/Sgt Richard Heggie, were killed when their aircraft crashed in fog.
He is buried in Belgium and also memorialized in Roseland Cemetery, Francesville, IN.

Comments/Citation:

Sources:
http://www.awon.org/awallee.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56279005
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21550730
http://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/american-war-cemetery-henri-chapelle-a/47032-allee-donald-w
https://www.abmc.gov/node/516890#.WFdu93eZMUM
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=F&q=donald+w+allee&bc=&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=1248640
His squadron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/422d_Test_and_Evaluation_Squadron