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Lyle Frost
World War II - U. S. Army Air Force
 Lyle Frost Staff Sergeant Radio Operator Serial Number 16093784 2nd Air Force, 34th Bomb Group, 7th Bomb Squadron stationed at Salinas Army Air Base, Salinas, California Birth: June 6, 1921 Wisconsin, USA Death: July 5, 1943 Santa Barbara County California, USA burial: Plane Crash 1943, Green Mountain on San Miguel Island off California Coast. Crash site not found until 1944 S/Sgt Killed In Action; Ashes Received by family and placed in Mountain Cemetery Mountain Oconto County Wisconsin, USA |
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Event Military History
 Lyle
Frost grew up in Mountain, WI. He was the son of Andrew
Christian Frost
and Claire Eunice Aldrich. He had brothers Adelbert Andrew and Guy
James, and sisters Myra and June Audrey Frost.While flying in bad weather with another B24 on a seach and rescue mission for two men who had baled out of their distressed aircraft over the Pacific off the coast of Santa Barbara, the plane carrying Radioman Staff Sergeant Lyle Frost,descended in heavy developing fog to take a closer look, and crashed head-on into Green Mountain on San Miguel Island, one of the three Channel Islands. A search was then initiated for this plane once it was known that they had lost contact. Eventually the search was called off and it was thought that the plane must have ditched in the Pacific. July 5, 1943: Consolidated B-24E (#42-7180) U.S.A.A. F. crashed on Green Mountain. Twelve men died in the crash. The site was not located until March 19, 1944. All personnel were members of the 2nd Air Force, 34th Bomb Group, 7th Bomb Squadron stationed at Salinas Army Air Base, Salinas, California. The remains of the crew were returned to their next of kin:
In 1954, additional crew remains were reported, and the Coast Guard Cutter 'Morris' was dispatched. However, while speeding to what they thought was a new crash site, it collided with the yacht 'Aloha',cutting it in half, resulting in two civilian casualties. After this, the military began using the crash site for target practice to avoid it being mistaken again for a new crash site. |
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News Article
July 7, 1943 Sgt. Frost Still
Reported Missing Special to Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wisconsin) GILLETT,
Wis. - An empty life raft from the plane aboard which Staff Sgt. Lyle
Frost 21, is missing during was found during a search of the area but
no trace of the crew was reported, the soldier's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Frost of Mountain, learned this second message from the
government.
The plane has been missing since, July 3 when it was on a 1,000-mile flight over the ocean, the first message said. The Salinas Air base disclosed disappearance of the plane on July 5. Staff Sgt. Frost is the oldest son of the Andrew Frosts, and a brother Delbert, is a private first class at Camp Chaffee, Ark. The missing sergeant enoisted in the Army Air forces last July 27, graduated form technical school as a mechanic at Lincoln, Neb., in January, and then went to gunnery school at Harlington, Tex. He completed that training in April and became a sergeant, going to Arizona and then to Salinas, Calif., where he was made a staff sargeant. He has spent his entire life in Mountain and was born there June 6, 1921. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
News Article
Tech. Sgt. Lyie L.
Frost, another Mountain casualty, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Frost, was one of 12 officers and men aboard a
heavy bomber which disappeared during a routine patrol flight off the
coast of southern California on July 5, 1943. Frost enlisted in the U.
S. Army Air forces on July 27, 1942, at the age of 21. A citation of
honor has been presented to his parents posthumously by the
War-department.Hamlet of Mountain Mighty Proud of Part in War Effort - By FRANK HORAK 1943 |
