WWII-KIA-CRANE, James Lawrence
CRANE, James Lawrence -- born 1922 died 20 November 1944 - Missing in Action -- received Air Medal with Gold Star - Ensign in US Navy. Information from a Family Tree on Ancestry.com -- photo was added by Tim Hoffman on the Hoffman/McPherson Family Tree - also link to findagrave memorial and his name is listed in the Hillsboro Cemetery WWII memorial -- https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Crane+&GSfn=James+&GSmn=L&GSby=1922&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1944&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=29564175&df=all& -
November 19, 1944
Pacific Ocean
James Lawrence Crane completed his training as an aviation cadet at the Navel Air Training Center, Pensacola, Florida and was appointed an Ensign in the U.S.N.R. on November 25, 1943. He subsequently joined Night Torpedo Squadron 90 flying TBM aircraft
James Lawrence Crane was born to Ollie and Marie Query Crane on July 14, 1922 in Cain Township, Fountain County, Indiana. Ollie was from Montgomery County, Marie Chicago, Illinois. He was their second child but the first to live born at 11:20 at night, Dr. Emery Bounell the delivering doctor. Having grown up in Denver Colorado (where Ollie was a salesman for an oil company) he had a brother, William and sister Mary Jane). They seemed to have moved back to Fountain County just before the war began. James completed training as an aviation cadet at the Navel Training Center in Pensacola, Florida and appointed Ensign on November 25, 1943. He then joined Torpedo Squadron 90 Flying TBM Aircraft and died OTD (assumedly) in 1944 when he was “lost at sea,” during a mission. Rest in peace dear Ensign!