Lawrence H. Langashire

The Man Behind the Name

§ Biography

2nd Lt. Lawrence H. Langashire served as co-pilot aboard B-24D 42-40265 with the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. His final mission was the August 1, 1943 low-level raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania.

His status is listed as EUS (evaded/unknown status) on the Missing Air Crew Report. No individual casualty questionnaire for Langashire is present in the associated MACR documentation.

Service record.

§ As Catalogued

Rank

2nd Lieutenant

Position

Co-Pilot

Serial Number

0-735404

Missions flown.

1 catalogued · 01 Aug 1943

The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.

№

Date

Target

Aircraft

№ 115

01 Aug 1943

Ploesti

“Honkey Tonk Gal / Naked Truth, The”

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