Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Lingafelt, T/Sgt. Herbert C. October 8, 1944
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Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 13 Oct 1944
LINGAFELT, T/Sgt. Herbert C.
15 July 1916 to 8 Oct 1944
28y 2m 24d
T/SGT. HERBERT C. LINGAFELT
Sgt Lingafelt, a radar instructor, was killed in a bomber crash in Texas, Oct. 
8. The picture below shows Sgt. Lingafelt [right] during a broadcast, telling 
of his rescue after being adrift without food three days and nights when his 
plane crashed in the Caribbean Sea early in 1943.
Local Casualty List Grows [Note – this article include Holloway, Lingafelt and 
Spellman
THREE MORE LOCAL MEN HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES IN THEIR COUNTRY’S SERVICE
KILLED IN BOMBER CRASH
T/Sgt. Herbert c. Lingafelt, 28, was killed in a bomber crash near Dallas, 
Texas, Sunday, while on a routine flight from his base at Pratt Army Air Field 
Pratt, Kas. Fourteen other crewmen were also killed in the crash.  Sergt. 
Lingafelt was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 15, 1916, a son of Herbert and 
Edna May Lingafelt, and came to New Buffalo with his parents 14 years ago. A 
graduate of Canfield high school, he was employed by the Republic Rubber Co. 
in Youngstown prior to his enlistment in the Army Air Force Nov. 10, 1941. 
Following training at Keesler Field, Miss., Scott Field, Ill., and Boca Raton, 
Fla., Sgt. Lingafelt spent many months at a Dutch Guiana air base and in the 
Caribbean area. While on a night reconnaissance flight over the Caribbean, his 
plane was forced down and Lingafelt, who jumped before the plane crashed, was 
the only survivor. He found a life raft and drifted for three days and nights 
without food before being picked up by a vessel and taken to a South American 
base. He returned to the States last May and had since served as a radar 
instructor at Pratt Field. Surviving are his parents, three sisters, Mrs. 
Oliver Dressel, DeCamp Road; Marian and Dorothy at home, and a brother, James 
E. The body, accompanied by a military escort from Pratt Field, will be 
brought to the William Funeral Home in Canfield, where the family will meet 
friends Friday evening. Funeral services will be held at the Funeral home at 
2:30 p.m. Saturday, with Rev. L.J. Baker of North Lima in charge. Burial will 
be made in Forest Lawn cemetery.



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