HERBERT S WELLS
1944
  
Missing Airman Is
Listed As Dead
  
Mrs. Ella Wells, Boons Camp was advised by the War Department
under date of Monday, December 31, 1945, that an official finding
of the death of her son, T Sgt. Herbert S. Wells, has been
recorded.
  
S Sgt. Wells was a crew member of a B-25 (Mitchell) bomber which
departed from Attu on Friday, December 29, 1944 on a photographic
mission to the Kurile Islands.  The aircraft when last contacted
by radio was near the Northern Kuriles.
  
Mrs. Wells is advised by the Adjutant General’s Office that this
finding does not establish an actual or probable date of death.
  
Major General Edward F. Witsell of the War Department in his
letter to Mrs. Wells, writes. “I regret the necessity for this
message but trust that the ending of a long period of uncertainty
may give at least some small measure of consolation.  I hope you
may find sustaining comfort in the thought that the uncertainty
with which war has surrounded the absence of your son has
enchanced the honor of his service to his country and of his
sacrifice.”
    
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
01-17-1946    

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