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John W. Barkley, Jr. (Cleveland Agency - #040)
Lieutenant John W. Barkley, Jr. (Cleveland Agency #040) resigned from the agency to enlist in the infantry. Barkley later transferred to the Air Corps where he became a navigator. Barkley was a member of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew but suddenly took seriously ill in October of 1943. He had flown several extremely dangerous missions over Germany and ironically entered the hospital nearly on the day his crew was shot down over enemy territory.

At age 25, kidney disease took his life on February 29, 1944 while confined in a military hospital in England. He is buried in the American National Cemetery at Cambridge, England and was survived by his parents.

The Radio Operator on Barkley’s crew, James R. Murray, recalled his friend. “(Barkley) was an excellent navigator and he was a good man to have on our crew.”

Photos of LT Barkley and his bomber crew can be seen on-line at the website for his Bomb Group: www.384thbombgroup.com/pages/ogilvie.html.