World War II Honoree

Albert W. Chase

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Concord, New Hampshire

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Technical Sergeant. On January 15, 1943, he entered the United States Army Air Corps at Manchester, New Hampshire and served as a Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner in a B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber. Assigned to the 526th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 41st Combat Bomb Wing, first Bomb Division, United States Eighth ‘Mighty Eighth’ Army Air Corps. His squadron was based at the Royal Air Force Station in Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in Great Britain, Army Air Force Station #117. Killed in Action Sunday, August 13, 1944 during a bombing raid to Oranienburg, Germany. The Flying Fortress came under attack and shot down by German anti-aircraft artillery fire and crashed near Falaise, France. He was unable to bail out and buried in the Saint James cemetery in Avranches, France. After the cessation of hostilities in Europe, his family received his remains for burial, with interment at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Loudon, New Hampshire. This Airman, an American Patriot awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, who so gallantly gave his life in defense of his country.