World War II Honoree
Killed in World War II
Freddie Louis Ball
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Ft. Worth, Texas
Honored By
Ms. Sheila Whitson
Relationship
Granddaughter
Rear Gunner on a dive bomber. Bataan Death March and Japanese POW in the Philippines, where he kept a secret diary of prison camp life that he hid by burying it underground. Was on a POW transport ship sunk by friendly fire in the South China Sea.