Fleming, Eugene B., SSgt

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
Staff Sergeant

Last Primary AFSC/MOS
AAF MOS 611-Aerial Gunner

Last AFSC Group
Air Crew (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1942-1943, AAF MOS 611, 353rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy

Service Years
1940 - 1943

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Personal Details

Home State

Washington

Year of Birth
Not Specified

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Casualty Info

Home Town Not Specified	Last Address 353rd Bomb Squadron St. Donat, Algeria

Casualty Date Jul 27, 1943
Cause Hostile, Died while Missing	Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Italy	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Sicily-Rome, Italy	Wall/Plot Coordinates Walls of the Missing

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	1943, World War II Fallen

World War II/European-African-Middle Eastern Theater/Egypt-Libya Campaign (1942-43)
From Month/Year June / 1942	To Month/Year February / 1943
Description (Egypt-Libya Campaign 11 June 1942 to 12 February 1943) When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the British had been fighting German and Italian armies in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya for over a year. In countering an Italian offensive in 1940, the British had at first enjoyed great success. In 1941, however, when German forces entered the theater in support of their Italian ally, the British suffered severe reversals, eventually losing nearly all their hard-won gains in North Africa. Even though the United States had not yet entered the war as an active combatant, by the time General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the German Army’s Afrika Korps, began his offensive against the British Eighth Army in Libya in March 1941, the American and British air chiefs were already discussing American support for the British Eighth Army. Rommel’s rapid and unexpected success in the Libyan desert forced British and American staff officers in London to accelerate their planning. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers also agreed that the British might need American support in the Middle East. Overall theater responsibility would continue to be British, but the President recognized that a British collapse in Egypt would have far-reaching implications and approved contingency measures to prepare for American support to the theater at a future date.