A native of Harrisburg, Oregon, Lt. Russel G. Quinn was assiged to the 77th. FS on 28 January, 1944. After completing aprox. half of his combat tour he was killed in action over France 13 June, 1944. In his time with the 20th.FG he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with 4 clusters.

The local people from the area where his P-38 crashed maintained a grave for him until the end of the war, whe his body was returned to the United States. Recently a memorial has been erected and a street has been named in his honor in the town where he lost his life.

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