1903 - 1988
LaVerne G. Saunders
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| Birthday |
21st March, 1903
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| Birthplace |
Stratford, South Dakota, United States
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| Died |
16th November, 1988
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| Place of Death |
Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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LaVerne George Saunders (21 March 1903 – 16 November 1988) was a brigadier general in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. A 1928 graduate of the West Point, he was an assistant coach of the college football team there from 1931 to 1939. He commanded the 11th Bombardment Group during the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Guadalcanal campaign. In November 1942 the bomber he was in was shot down and he ditched in the sea. In 1944 he commanded the 58th Bombardment Wing, and he led the bombing mission against Yawata, the first attack on Japan since the Doolittle Raid in 1942. He was involved in a plane crash in September 1944, and spent two and a half years in hospital before retiring in February 1947.
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