SSgt Billy Joe Brown

Executed at Fukuoka Camp #1
While a Prisoner of War
of the
Japanese Government

Original version 30 aug 2019
Updated January 2023

498th Bomb Group (VH), 873rd Bomb Squadron
AIRCRAFT
COMMANDER
B-29 SERIAL NUMBER
NICKNAME
FISHER
42-24611
Little Joe / Little Jo

 

14 May 1922 - 20 June 1945

source Sandy H
Ancestry.com


Web sites that Honor SSgt Brown:

Honor States

Find-A-Grave

( Scott Muselin 498th Bomb Group Virtual Cemetery )

SSgt Billy Joe Brown was executed 20 June 1945 at Fukuoka.
He was known to have been there but his remains were never recovered.

Fukuoka POW Camp #1

source: Mansell Pacific POW MIA web site
used with permission of Wes Injerg


His status remains as
Killed in Action - Remains not Recoverable

Below are his Memorial Certificate from
the American Battle Monuments Commision

and

his place in the Courts of the Missing
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Additional information can be found in the

Introduction


My thanks go out to the following for their assistance:

Ed Lawson
Jim Bowman

Scott Muselin
Roy Wall

Sandy H.
Tracy Mesler
Don Langford

Nancy Samp

Air Force Historical Research Agency

Mansell Pacific POW Database
Wes Injerd

POW Research Network Japan

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MEMORIAL CERTIFICATE
American Battle Monuments Commission



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COURT OF THE MISSING
NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC



source: Sherry HS

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