Lloyd Herbert Hughes
| Lloyd Herbert Hughes, Jr. | |
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| Born |
July 12, 1921 Alexandria, Louisiana |
| Died | August 1, 1943 (aged 22) Prahova River, Campina, Romania |
| Service/branch |
 United States Army Air Forces
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| Unit | 564th Bombardment Squadron, 389th Bomb Group (Heavy). |
| Awards |
 Medal of Honor Purple Heart
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Lloyd Herbert "Pete" Hughes, Jr., (July 12, 1921 – August 1, 1943), was a pilot who held the rank of Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II.
Second Lieutenant Lloyd Herbert Hughes, Jr. also received several other awards including the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and Aviation Badge "Pilot" . His Commander Addison Baker also received the Medal of Honor .
Hughes was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, the only son of Lloyd Herbert Hughes, Sr., and Mildred Mae Rainey Hughes. Family and friends called him Pete. One source described his parents as Welsh immigrants, but Mildred was born in Josserand, Trinity County, Texas. The family lived in Alexandria only briefly before moving to his mother's native state of Texas.
He graduated from Refugio High School, Refugio, Texas, in 1939 and went on to attend Corpus Christi Junior College in Corpus Christi and Texas A&M University in College Station. He studied petroleum engineering at Texas A&M and was a member of the class of 1943, but left school before graduating. A few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor he joined the military. He entered the military service at San Antonio on January 28, 1942 (At the age of 20), and was appointed an aviation cadet the same day.
On November 8, 1942, Hughes married Hazel Dean Ewing.
After attending flight school in Tulsa and Enid, Oklahoma, Hughes received his pilot's wings at Lubbock, Texas, on November 10, 1942. He was assigned to the 389th Bombardment Group, went to Africa in June 1943, and participated in five combat missions in the Italy-Romania area.
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