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Earl B. Lattier was a graduate of Abbeville High School and attended
Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now U.L.L.) for two years. Then in May
of 1941 he volunteered for the US Army Air Corps, the forerunner of today's Air
Force. When the war started, he was assigned to an air unit in the
southwest Pacific.
Earl's plane was shot down in New Guinea on November 25, 1942. His body
was not recovered.
Second Lt. Earl was the son of Victor S. Lattier and Nellie Grant Lattier of Abbeville.
He had two brothers who also served in World War II, V. S. Lattier, Jr., and
James Ray Lattier.
We are grateful to Claire Gooch Lattier for her assistance in obtaining the
above picture.
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