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"BALTIMORE (Tribune News Service) — Walter J. Furlong, a highly decorated World War II bomber turret gunner who flew 40 missions and survived being shot down four times, died June 22 from complications from a stroke at Quail Run, a Parkville assisted-living facility. The Perry Hall resident was 92.
The son of Walter B. Furlong, a typesetter, and Mary Teresa Furlong, a Hochschild Kohn saleswoman, Walter Joseph Furlong was born in Baltimore and raised on Ilchester Avenue in Waverly.
He was a 1942 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington, and was working as a Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. lineman when he decided to enlist in the Army Air Corps.
"His father, who had been in World War I and saw the horror of war, told him not to enlist and wait until he was drafted, so that's what he did," said a son, Stephen Furlong of Shrewsbury, Pa.
Drafted in 1943, Mr. Furlong received basic training at Fort Holabird, then went overseas to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England, where he continued flight training.
He joined the 8th Air Force's 94th Bomber Group as a turret gunner and flew aboard Boeing B-17 Super Fortresses and Consolidate B-24 Liberator bombers. While stationed at Bury St. Edmunds, his plane crashed into the English Channel and he spent half an hour in the chilled waters before being picked up. He was then assigned in 1944 to the 15th Air Force's 94th Bomber Group in Lecce, Italy. He had to bail out twice in Italy after his plane was damaged by enemy fire. The first time, he parachuted into a potato field and injured his back.".....>
"BALTIMORE (Tribune News Service) — Walter J. Furlong, a highly decorated World War II bomber turret gunner who flew 40 missions and survived being shot down four times, died June 22 from complications from a stroke at Quail Run, a Parkville assisted-living facility. The Perry Hall resident was 92.
The son of Walter B. Furlong, a typesetter, and Mary Teresa Furlong, a Hochschild Kohn saleswoman, Walter Joseph Furlong was born in Baltimore and raised on Ilchester Avenue in Waverly.
He was a 1942 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington, and was working as a Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. lineman when he decided to enlist in the Army Air Corps.
"His father, who had been in World War I and saw the horror of war, told him not to enlist and wait until he was drafted, so that's what he did," said a son, Stephen Furlong of Shrewsbury, Pa.
Drafted in 1943, Mr. Furlong received basic training at Fort Holabird, then went overseas to Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England, where he continued flight training.
He joined the 8th Air Force's 94th Bomber Group as a turret gunner and flew aboard Boeing B-17 Super Fortresses and Consolidate B-24 Liberator bombers. While stationed at Bury St. Edmunds, his plane crashed into the English Channel and he spent half an hour in the chilled waters before being picked up. He was then assigned in 1944 to the 15th Air Force's 94th Bomber Group in Lecce, Italy. He had to bail out twice in Italy after his plane was damaged by enemy fire. The first time, he parachuted into a potato field and injured his back.".....>