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Full name
FRANKLIN, Marthal Noles "Bubba"
Date of birth
18 September 1921
Age
21
Place of birth
Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana
Hometown
Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

Military service

Service number
18134153
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Right Waist Gunner
Unit
335th Bombardment Squadron,
95th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
26 July 1943
Place of death
Bremen, west of river Elbe, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Ernest E. Franklin (father)
Ava L. (Noles) Franklin (mother)
Francis E. Franklin (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-3264
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Angel of Destruction
Destination: Hannover, Germany
Mission: Bombing of rubber factories
MACR: 193

More information

S/Sgt Marthal N. Franklin graduated from Columbia High School in 1940 before he volunteered for the Army Air Corps of the Army of the United States on 1 July 1942.

The airplane was shot down by enemy aircraft and flak, which knocked out two engines. The entire crew of ten men was killed.

S/Sgt Franklin is remembered at Bistineau Cemetery in Heflin, Webster Parish, Louisiana with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees / WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.95thbg.com, www.findagrave.com - Virginia Wilson Bailey, Fold3