Portrait of William Boschert Shea, a Lieutinent in the U.S. Army. Shea was born May 5, 1919, in Kansas City Missouri, and attended Southwest High School, Rockhurst College, and the University of Missouri. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941, and was commissioned a bomber pilot in 1942. He was killed in a collision of two bombers on September 24, 1942, while training in Arizona.
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