2nd Lt. Paul S. Hite was killed while flying with another crew on March 26, 1943. The plane he was on crash on take off on a combat mission. Eight of the nine people on that flight died, with S/Sgt. Harvey Cook as the sole survivor. Lt. Hite enlisted on April 30, 1940. ASN O-791435. He was born on February 7, 1916.
Shown here in clipping with early crew in Tucson, Sept. 1942.
Lt. Hite was born in Arkansas on February 9, 1916. He had two brothers and one sister.
Lt. Hite left behind a wife, Mable Marie Hite (Converse), in Oklahoma City, and had applied for a marriage license in August of 1942, in Tucson, Arizona, while he was training there with the initial B-24 bomber crew. Lt. Hite is buried at Walnut Grove Cemetery, Newport, AR. "Elsie Hite" signed to request a flat granite headstone for him on May 17, 1949.
