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War's Worst Week For Belleville Lists 13 Local Casualties (Jan. 18, 1945) -- 2nd. Lt. Roger J. Mellion, 21, was killed near Goose Bay, Labrador, when the B-24 on which he was a crewmember crashed. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mellion of Overlook Avenue. Lt. Mellion was on the first lap of a flight to Europe to begin active duty as a pilot of a heavy bomber. He was graduated from Belleville High School in
1941. Lt. Mellion was commissioned as an Army pilot in May 1944 at Turner Field, Albany, Ga. He took his B-24 transitional training in Westover Field, Mass., and Charleston, S. C.
Source: The Belleville Times, January 18, 1945
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