On April 28, 2006, Technical Sgt Alfred Wesley Hill is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsill.asp.  His remains were laid to rest at the Fort Sill National Cemetery. TSgt Hill was missing in action for 62 years. He and eight crewmembers were onboard the B-24 bomber that disappeared after leaving Dobodura, New Guinea on an armed reconnaissance mission flying over Kavieng, New Ireland. He was last reported alive near Morobe Province, New Guinea on November 5, 1943. Remnants of all nine crewmen were found, identified, and returned to their families.  Alfred served as a Technical Sergeant on B-24D #42-40972, 63rd Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

He resided in Borden County, Texas prior to the war.

He enlisted in the Army on March 10, 1942 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Farm Hand and also as Single, without dependents.

Alfred was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-24, which took off from Dobodura Airfield on an armed reconnaissance mission to shadow a ten vessel convoy off Kavieng, crashed near the village of Imon, roughly 45 miles north of Lae, during the war.

His B-24D #42-40972, in their last message, reported "Three direct hits on a CL [Light Cruiser] or CA [Heavy Cruiser], 0.3005 15100E target destroyed".

He was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.

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