[kaki3152]

It does appear that the real date of his death is December 15,1942. Thanks a million!

(1) The news clipping states;"Now that the African campaign is in its clean up stages",clearly pointing to a probable date of April-June 1943

(2) The memorial stone in the cemetery has the date of December 15,1942, which was done after the war by the family who had more knowledge of the actual date.

(3) I could never locate a MACR for this individual, which makes sense if he was lost in December 1942 and not December 1943, when MACrs were much more common.

It is quite probable that Lt. Clinton L. Doolittle was the first casualty of the 3rd Photographic Group in the Tunisian theater.