S/Sgt Chester Lee Bull was born 12 Jan 1919 at Dayton, Sebastian County, Arkansas to Pleasent Lovey & Amy Belle Summers Bull Staff Sergeant Bull served with the US Army Air Corps, Group 90th Bomber Group, Heavy, 400th Bomber Squadron. He was Declared Dead, lost at sea. His has a Memorial site in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines. PLOT - Wall's Of The Missing. Story and Crew photo from CBOOKER on Ancestry: Chester graduated from high school in Fort Smith, AR and enlisted in the Army 27 June 1940. He was assigned to the Army Heavy Artillery. He was home on furlough once after enlistment. After Pearl Harbor he was stationed in the Hawaian Islands for a year. He was then transferred to the Engineering Corps. He later transferred to the Army Air Corp. In the Air Corp he was assigned as a nose gunner of a Liberator Long Range Bomber. He was then sent to Australia and based in the south pacific New Guinea area. He served in the Army for three years. During those 3 years he flew many long range bombing runs from 31 March 1943 thru 22 July 1943. He received the Air Medal along with the rest of the crew of the Liberator he served on. The crew received the Air Medal for a bombing raid carried out on an ammunition dump at Salamaua, New Guinea. They made a run on the ammo dump dropping 500 lb bombs, then made a second pass dropping additional 500 lb bombs. Brigider General Roger Ramy commended the air crew on the job they had done. Chester's plane and entire crew were reported missing in action by the War Department on 15 Aug 1943 somewhere in the New Guinea area. Chester Bull & Air Crew The Bakersfield Californian Bakersfield, Ca May 23, 1942