Leslie Hand Rockwell
Graduating
Class of 1943
Served in
World War II
Technical Sergeant
Leslie Hand Rockwell
Army Air Forces
331st Bombardment Squadron
94th Bomb Group
Hometown
Atkinson, NH
Date of Birth
Location of Death
English Channel
Date of Death
Location of Burial
Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Cambridge, England
More About Technical Sergeant Rockwell
Technical Sergeant Rockwell enlisted May 11, 1942 in Manchester, NH. Rockwell served as a technical sergeant and top turret gunner on B-17 "Visiting Fireman".
T Sgt. Rockwell was declared Missing in Action after the B-17 he was flying in (42-29882) was shot down by an enemy fighter and crashed into the English Channel. He is now memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire, England. He was award the Air Medal and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.