- SURNAME
Yates
- FORENAME
Jerome Bonaparte
- UNIT
3 AC Group (4 Fighter Squadron)
- RANK
First Lieutenant
- NUMBER
0-801355
- DATE OF DEATH
1st February 1945
- AGE
- GRAVESITE
Manila American Cemetery,Philippines Tablets of the Missing
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Leflore County,Mississippi
born 1916 Mississippi
son of Jerome Bonaparte and Ada (nee Hutchinson) Yates
husband of Stella Evelyn (nee Mallett) Yates (1912-2009)
1 year college
office clerk in civilian life
married
enlisted 27.3.1942 Jackson,Mississippi (Private 14095322 Air Corps)
pilot
P-51D Mustang (44-15199)
bomb-strafe Japanese destroyer off Camiguin Island,Philippines
last seen in his life-raft
award Air Medal
memorial at Hazlehurst Cemetery,Hazlehurst,Copiah County,Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH:
01-Feb-1945
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