Staff Sergeant Boal was a crewmember aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-29-40-BW Superfortress #42-24604, nicknamed "Wheel n' Deal." Killed In Action when the bomber, said to be on a weather reconnaissance mission over Japan, crashed in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, with the loss of all eleven crew. With the 497th Bomb Group, 870th Bomb Squadron.
(Contributed by Tim Cook)
Staff Sergeant Boal was a crewmember aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-29-40-BW Superfortress #42-24604, nicknamed "Wheel n' Deal." Killed In Action when the bomber, said to be on a weather reconnaissance mission over Japan, crashed in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, with the loss of all eleven crew. With the 497th Bomb Group, 870th Bomb Squadron.
(Contributed by Tim Cook)
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