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1Lt Preston White Campbell Jr.

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1Lt Preston White Campbell Jr. Veteran

Birth
Death
23 May 1944 (aged 28)
Germany
Burial
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England GPS-Latitude: 52.216525, Longitude: 0.0546667
Plot
Plot A Row 7 Grave 13
Memorial ID
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There is a cenotaph for Preston in his family's lot in Abingdon, Virginia.
Before the war, Preston workred at the Campbell Printing Company, Abingdon, Virginia. He and Nancy McGuire Patterson (daughter of Douglas A Patterson, Lillian McNeil) married in 1940.

Preston graduated from the Bombardier School at Deming A. A. School, New Mexico, on June 18, 1943. He was sent to Euope in March, 1944 as a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator with the 754th Bombardment Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. P
There is a cenotaph for Preston in his family's lot in Abingdon, Virginia.
Before the war, Preston workred at the Campbell Printing Company, Abingdon, Virginia. He and Nancy McGuire Patterson (daughter of Douglas A Patterson, Lillian McNeil) married in 1940.

Preston graduated from the Bombardier School at Deming A. A. School, New Mexico, on June 18, 1943. He was sent to Euope in March, 1944 as a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator with the 754th Bombardment Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. P

Inscription

Preston W. Campbell Jr.
1LT 754 Bomb SO 458 Bomb Gp.
Virginia May 12 1944

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Virginia.



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  • Maintained by: DebL
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56288336/preston_white-campbell: accessed ), memorial page for 1Lt Preston White Campbell Jr. (21 Sep 1915–23 May 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56288336, citing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by DebL (contributor 47462502).