Royal R. Jarnstrom

Royal R. Jarnstrom entered the Army Air Corps in November of 1944.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and served as a navigator and aerial gunner with the 375th Bomb Squadron of the 306th Bomb Group of the 14th Air Force during the China offensive in the China-Burma-India Theater.

Mr. Jarnstrom was awarded the Air Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one bronze battle star, American Campaign Medal.

He was released from active duty on February 16, 1946 at Santa Ana, Calif.

Source: Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War II Project. 126.

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