**Note the above photograph appears to be identified incorrectly as taken 31 March 1945. Because the Crew & the plane was lost on 11 Apr 1944, the year ID for this photo would be correct as 31 March 1944.**
Born: 1913; Died 11 Apr 1944
Enlisted: Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1942 (from Clay County)
Source: ancestry.com; American Air Museum in Britain
Ralph Clark Murray was born Aug. 23, 1913 to Clinton and Hazel Carlton Murray. He died Apr. 11, 1944 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England
Sgt. Murray served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 412th Bomber Squadron, 95th Bomber Group, Heavy as a gunner on a B-17 Fortress and was MIA/KIA in the Baltic Sea off Rostock, Germany. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
