Kobler, Wayne Francis, 1st Lt

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
First Lieutenant

Primary Unit
1943-1944, 318th Fighter Group

Service Years
1942 - 1944

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Personal Details

Home State

Kansas

Year of Birth
1922

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Casualty Info

Home Town Penokee, Kansas	Last Address Aslito Airfield, Saipan, Mariana Islands

Casualty Date Jun 27, 1944
Cause KIA-Killed in Action	Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Saipan	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (VA) - Honolulu, Hawaii	Wall/Plot Coordinates Section M Site 1246

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Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	1944, National Cemetery Administration (NCA)
	2015, World War II Fallen

1943-1944, 318th Fighter Group

From Month/Year September / 1943	To Month/Year June / 1944
Unit 318th Fighter Group Unit Page
Rank First Lieutenant	AFSC/MOS Not Specified
Base, Station or City Stanley, Kualoa, & Bellows Fields, T.H.; Aslito Airfield, Saipan	State/Country Not Specified

Patch	318th Fighter Group Details

	Type Fighter
	Parent Unit Fighter Units	Strength Group
	Created/Owned By Not Specified

Last Updated: Dec 10, 2019

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8 Members Also There at Same Time

318th Fighter Group

Peckham, Walter Lamar, Maj, (1942-1962)			[Other Service Rank]
Sanders, Lewis Morgan, Col, (1936-1950)	A23	AAF MOS 1065	Colonel
Blackwood, Marshall Carlyle, 1st Lt, (1942-1945)			First Lieutenant
McCaul, Owen Richard, 1st Lt, (1941-1944)			First Lieutenant
Bunnell, Marshall Watts, 2nd Lt, (1942-1945)	A23	AAF MOS 1055	Second Lieutenant
Gladen, Cyrus Raymond, Lt Col, (1940-1968)	A23	AAF MOS 1055	Second Lieutenant
Schreiber, Leroy Adolph, Maj, (1940-1944)	A23	AAF MOS 1055	Second Lieutenant
Starmann, John W., 2nd Lt, (1942-1943)	A23	AAF MOS 1055	Second Lieutenant