James Robert Wilson was born Apr. 28, 1923 to Otis Winfield and Mamie Dell Curry Wilson. He died July 12, 1942 and is memorialized at the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines and has a cenotaph in Cascade Community Cemetery, Cascade, IA.
Pvt. Wilson served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Squadron, 20th Air Base Group at Nichols Field, Philippine Islands and was MIA and became a POW and died of diphtheria as a POW of the Japanese.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
