World War II Honoree

Quilla D. Reed

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Michigan

Honored By

John Meurs

Relationship

Historian

SERVICE NUMBER: 14107991. SERVED AS ENGINEER WITH THE 91ST BOMB GROUP, 323RD BOMB SQUADRON OF THE 8TH AIR FORCE BASED IN ENGLAND. ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1944 HIS AIRCRAFT THE B-17G, SERIAL NUMBER 42-37913 'SEATTLE SLEEPER' EXPLODED OVER HAULWERWIJK, NETHERLANDS, AFTER A MISSION TO OSNABRÜCK, GERMANY. THE WHOLE CREW COULD SAVE THEMSELVES BY PARACHUTE AND SURVIVED THE WAR. 3 OF THEM WERE TAKEN PRISONER BUT THE OTHER 6, AMONG THEM, HONOREE, WERE PICKED UP AND HIDDEN BY THE DUTCH UNDERGROUND UNTIL THEIR LIBERATION BY CANADIAN TROOPS IN SPRING 1945.