Porter M. Pile

World War II
Service #O-719140
Unit700th Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, Heavy
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of DeathSeptember 28 1945
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Second Lieutenant Porter M. Pile were accounted for in 2022. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Tablets of the Missing” at the Cambridge American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.