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https://www.afhistory.af.mil/FAQs/Fact-Sheets/Article/639604/pucket-1st-lt-donald-d-pucket/

https://news.va.gov/103178/veteranoftheday-army-air-corps-veteran-donald-d-pucket/

First Lieutenant Donald D. Pucket (World War II) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/jeffersonbarracks.asp. He received the Medal of Honor posthumously for service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 343d Bombardment Squadron, 98th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, in recognition of actions after his aircraft was damaged over Ploesti, Romania, July 9, 1944. Pucket ordered his crew to abandon ship, but he remained on board when three of his men were unable to parachute out and tried to regain control of the plane as it crashed. His remains were buried on October 31, 1950, as part of a group in Section 84, Sites 270–272.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/659.
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List of dead, including 1LT Donald Pucket. Daily Sentinel September 24, 1944.

It lists people killed in different theaters of war from Western Colorado.

News article announcing Pucket awarded Medal of Honor. Lincoln Star July 22, 1945.

Describes Pucket trying to land plane in order to save his crewmates, but hit mountainside

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