
Cary Louis Gray
Second Lieutenant, Army
Hometown: Roanoke City, VA
Casualty Date: July 17, 1944
Died In: France
Casualty Date: July 17, 1944
Died In: France
Second Lieutenant Gray was assigned to the 513th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group that flew in support of the Normandy invasion during June 1944.
Cary was a pilot flying a P-47 Thunderbolt with serial number 42-8544 that flew out of Ashford, England, on a reconnaissance mission in near Lessay, France, on June 17, 1944, and he failed to return. He was last seen bailing out of his plane two miles east of Cherbourg. A later report stated that his parachute failed to open.
He is interred in the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
