Introduction

500th Bomb Group ( Very Heavy )

AIRCRAFT COMMANDER

SERIAL NUMBER

TAIL NUMBER

LAW

44-69666

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My thanks go out to the following for their help:

Michael Krehl
Roy Wall

Jim Bowman
Scott Muselin

Ed Lawson
500th Bomb Group Memorial Association

POW Research Network Japan

Perry Castaneda Map Collection
University of Texas, Austin

Tributes to Sgt Robert H Nead can be found at

Scott Muselin's Find A Grave
500th Bomb Group Virtual Cemetery

Honor States

Within these pages
are selections from the complete

Case History 111

and

The Law Crew

Sgt Robert Hayes Nead and his twin brother Richard Charles Nead were born on 24 October 1921.

Their parents, Harry Willard Nead and Della Gilbert Nead,
also had three other children who were older than the twins.

In both the 1930 and 1940 Census Mr Harry Nead's occupation
was listed as
Machinist with Railroad

From information at Ancestry.com it appears that the
family lived in Perry, Iowa, for many years.
In 1940 the population was approximately 6,000.

There is not much information about Sgt Nead at either Ancestry.com nor
in his Individual Deceased Personnel File ( IDPF ).

The following records are in the
Introduction
section

Draft registration 14 Feb 1942
Enlistment Record 10 Oct 1942

The B-29 flown by Lt Edward G Law was lost during
73rd Bomb Wing Mission Number 37 the night of 1-2 April 1945.

Lt Law did not survive the crash but the other ten men were able to parachute to safety.
Some details are within this site as well as the separate site for the

Law Crew

Below are Sgt Nead's Memorial Certificate from the
American Battle Monuments Commision

and

a photo of his name in the
Courts of the Missing

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu

AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
MEMORIAL CERTIFICATE

source: American Battle Monuments Commission

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WALL OF THE MISSING
NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC
HONOLULU, HAWAII

source: Sherry HS

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