Ralston E. Bixler

Rank: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces

Serial: O-728163

Unit: 401st Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: February 26, 1943

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

Memorialized at: Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England

Second Lieutenant Ralston E. Bixler was born in 1916 to the Reverend and Mrs. C. E. Bixler. He had married, and made his home with his wife Lorrayne H. Bixler at 214 Redman Avenue in Haddonfield. After qualifying for flight duty, he was trained as a member of a bomber crew, and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1942. Assigned to the 401st Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy, he flew out of Bassingbourn, England.

Ralston Bixler was reported missing in action on February 26, 1943. His body was never recovered and he was later declared to have been killed in action. He was survived by his wife, of the Haddonfield address, and his father, then living in Miami, Florida.