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Full Name	John Anthony Regan
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People ID	675503
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First Name	John
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Middle Name	Anthony
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Surname	Regan
AKA Surname
Father's Surname
Mother's Surname
Suffix
Gender	Male
Full Birth Date If Known	1922-06-20
Birth Year	1922
Birth Month	6
Birth Day	20
Full Death Date If Known	1945-04-21
Death Year	1945
Death Month	4
Death Day	21

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Residence	1942	USA	New York	Queens	New York City (Queens)	Elmhurst
Death	1945/04/21	Germany	Bayern	Oberpfalz	Regensburg Kreis
Obituary Published	1945/06/07	USA	New Jersey	Hudson	Jersey City		Jersey Journal (GenealogyBank) Under "Rambling 'Round" Sports News

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Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)

Military Service

Rank If Known Or Highest Or Final Rank	Branch of Service	Beginning Date if Known	End Date if Known
1st Lieutenant	US Army Air Force/Air Forces

Military Actions Served During


World War II

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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/675503.txt

Co-pilot of the Black Cat.

Some accounts list him as a 2nd Lieutenant but this may have been before a promotion.

A few sources list his name as Reagan not Regan. Most show him as Regan.

He was apparently a well enough known college basketball player that his death was published in the newspapers in a syndicated sports column, not as an obituary. This link to the Jersey Journal is the same one as above on the event listed as his "obituary published".

His service number was O-828526.

His profile on the CUNY website.

This is his page on the American Air Museum in Britain website (AAMIB is part of the Imperial War Museum, although it has it's own separate website).

I am a bit mystified that I can not find any record of a burial or a cenotaph for him on any of the official U.S. military burial websites. I checked both the V.A. and the ABMC sites with no luck, and also checked Arlington as well (although I do know there are people at Arlington who do not show up on their website). Considering all the other crew members who were KIA in the crash are present and accounted for, I'm mystified by the lack of an entry for him. I'm wondering if his name has been garbled in the records somehow. I checked under both Regan and Reagan with no luck. When I get a chance I will see if I can find my copy of Wings of Morning by Thomas Childers (nephew of Regan's crewmate Howard Goodner) and see if he has anything to say about what became of Regan's body.


The Black Cat - USAAF B-24J bomber S/N 42-95592 shot down by flak near Regensburg, Germany
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Family Search ID	G3NL-M9K
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Other websites	http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/118601
Record Entry Date	2019-11-07 16:39:23
Record Last Edit Date	2019-11-07 16:39:23

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