Manheim Officer's Body Coming Home - The body of Capt. John W. Long, Manheim R1, will arrive at 11 a.m. Wednesday (today) at the Fred H. Koser Funeral Home, Landisville. Private funeral services will be held from the funeral home Saturday afternoon. Capt. Long, son of Mrs. Fannie Long Mann, Manheim R1, and the the late J. Warren Long, was twenty-five, when he was killed when his plane attacked a Japanese carrier at Kyushu, August 9, 1945. He was a group navigator in the Fifth Air Force and served as navigational instructor at Hondo Field, Texas, for two-and-one-half-years prior to going overseas. He was a graduate of East Hempfield Twp. High School and Dickinson College and entered the service July 16, 1941. He was commissioned May 2, 1942. Long's body was exhumed and returned to Lancaster for burial on 11 May 1949. Source: Lancaster New Era.
Photo of John and wife Mary Louise(Hollinger) Long on their wedding day, June 6, 1942, in Willow Street, Pa.
Second photo is John, wife Mary Lou and their five month old daughter, Judy in Dec 1943. Credit photos to Andrew H. Farmer, author of his book "Finding The Way" published 2006
by Warwick House Publishing, Lynchburg, Va.
Photo of John and wife Mary Louise(Hollinger) Long on their wedding day, June 6, 1942, in Willow Street, Pa.
Second photo is John, wife Mary Lou and their five month old daughter, Judy in Dec 1943. Credit photos to Andrew H. Farmer, author of his book "Finding The Way" published 2006
by Warwick House Publishing, Lynchburg, Va.
Manheim Officer's Body Coming Home - The body of Capt. John W. Long, Manheim R1, will arrive at 11 a.m. Wednesday (today) at the Fred H. Koser Funeral Home, Landisville. Private funeral services will be held from the funeral home Saturday afternoon. Capt. Long, son of Mrs. Fannie Long Mann, Manheim R1, and the the late J. Warren Long, was twenty-five, when he was killed when his plane attacked a Japanese carrier at Kyushu, August 9, 1945. He was a group navigator in the Fifth Air Force and served as navigational instructor at Hondo Field, Texas, for two-and-one-half-years prior to going overseas. He was a graduate of East Hempfield Twp. High School and Dickinson College and entered the service July 16, 1941. He was commissioned May 2, 1942. Long's body was exhumed and returned to Lancaster for burial on 11 May 1949. Source: Lancaster New Era.
Photo of John and wife Mary Louise(Hollinger) Long on their wedding day, June 6, 1942, in Willow Street, Pa.
Second photo is John, wife Mary Lou and their five month old daughter, Judy in Dec 1943. Credit photos to Andrew H. Farmer, author of his book "Finding The Way" published 2006
by Warwick House Publishing, Lynchburg, Va.
Photo of John and wife Mary Louise(Hollinger) Long on their wedding day, June 6, 1942, in Willow Street, Pa.
Second photo is John, wife Mary Lou and their five month old daughter, Judy in Dec 1943. Credit photos to Andrew H. Farmer, author of his book "Finding The Way" published 2006
by Warwick House Publishing, Lynchburg, Va.
