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World War II Honoree

World War II Veteran

Laverne Edward 'Bud' Foran

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Plainfield, Illinois

Honored By

Tom Foran

Relationship

Son

Branch Seal
Activity During WWII

B-24J Bomber Pilot, 15th Air Force, 485th Bomb Group, 430th Bomb Squadron, Stationed Venosa, Italy, September 8, 1944 through the end of the war. Flew missions throughout German occupied Europe including northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Budapest, Czechoslovakia. Crash landed 'Big Alice from Dallas' on October 12, 1944 after landing gear and hydraulics shot out after bomb runs on an Ammunition Depot in Bologna, Italy.