Homer A. Spence

World War II
Service #O-760403
Unit96th Fighter Squadron, 82nd Fighter Group
RankFirst Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From California
Date of DeathJuly 20 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
96th Fighter Squadron, 82nd Fighter Group
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of 1st Lt. Homer A. Spence were accounted for in 2017. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Walls of the Missing” at Epinal American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.