Herbert S. Wells

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Missing Airman Is Listed As Dead

    Mrs. Ella Wells, Boons Camp was advised by the War Department under date of Monday, December 31, 1945, that an official finding of the death of her son, T Sgt. Herbert S. Wells, has been recorded. S Sgt. Wells was a crew member of a B-25 (Mitchell) bomber which departed from Attu on Friday, December 29, 1944 on a photographic mission to the Kurile Islands. The aircraft when last contacted by radio was near the Northern Kuriles.

    Mrs. Wells is advised by the Adjutant General’s Office that this finding does not establish an actual or probable date of death. Major General Edward F. Witsell of the War Department in his letter to Mrs. Wells, writes.

    “I regret the necessity for this message but trust that the ending of a long period of uncertainty may give at least some small measure of consolation. I hope you may find sustaining comfort in the thought that the uncertainty with which war has surrounded the absence of your son has enhanced the honor of his service to his country and of his sacrifice.”

 

Paintsville Herald

Thursday

01-17-1946