17th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron
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Roll of Honor

"To those Squadron men, who have given that last and greatest measure of devotion, we dedicate this book.

Lonely jungle islands or the vast Pacific Ocean may have captured their bodies but their spirits will continue to live in our hearts and in the pages of our living history

Willingly they gave their lives for an ideal.  They have proven to the enemy that our democracy is not the decadent thing they presumed, but a thing so precious that it is indeed worth fighting and dying for.

Throughout our lives we shall deem it a privilege to have toiled with those men for our common cause.

They were not the fortunate ones to see that cause result in a victorious conclusion but because of them we will continue to live in a free country, beholden to no man, able to live on our ingenuity.

In the sound of our planes zooming into the wild blue yonder, and in the sight of a lonely cloud are the souls of these men, our buddies."

2nd Lt. Edward J. Peterson Killed in training flight Colorado Springs, Colorado 1942	Pvt. Edward P. Gray Killed in Action Guadalcanal 27 January 1943	1st Lt. Harold W. Ervin Killed in plane crash New Hebrides Islands 7 February 1943
1st Lt. John A. Mancini Missing in reconnaissance flight Solomon Islands 22 April 1943	2nd Lt. Charles B. Roberts Missing in reconnaissance flight Solomon Islands 9 May 1943	2nd Lt. Ray L. Petterson Missing in reconnaissance flight 17 August 1943
1st Lt. William E. Herzog Missing in reconnaissance flight Bismarck Archipelago 18 April 1944	Sgt. Wilbert H. Sann Missing in transportation flight Solomon Islands 18 May 1944	1st Lt. Stanley L. Alexander Missing in test flight Solomon Islands 28 August 1944
2nd Lt. Carl W. Bradshaw Missing in reconnaissance flight Netherlands East Indies 25 January 1945	1st Lt. John R. Graff Missing in reconnaissance flight Netherlands East Indies 22 February 1945	2nd Lt. Carroll L. Bryan Killed in plane crash Palawan Island, Philippines 16 July 1945
Major Lloyd R. Marsh Died of exposure Adrift near Tanimbar Island 6 September 1945	1st Lt. Andrew G. Couch, Jr. Died of exposure Adrift near Tanimbar Island 6 September 1945	2nd Lt. Ardell A. Nord Missing in reconnaissance flight Solomon Islands 14 February 1943
2nd Lt. James G. Reed Missing in reconnaissance flight Solomon Islands 6 December 1943	2nd Lt. Fred H. Baird Missing in reconnaissance flight Solomon Islands 2 July 1943	2nd Lt. Hubert C. Brown Missing in reconnaissance flight Netherlands East Indies 12 January 1945

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