Text on picture reads "Your loving son Bill"

Address: Grenada, Mississippi.
Entered Service: December 30, 1941 - Volunteered.
Branch of Service: U. S. Army Air Force.
Trained at Keesler Field, Mississippi; Tyndall Field, Florida; Barksdale Field, Louisiana.
Overseas: June, 1944.
Theatre of Operations: European (Iceland, England, Ireland, France). Awarded: Air Medal, Purple Heart.
Rank: Staff Sergeant.
Remarks: Reported missing over Germany on 24th mission, December 23, 1944.
Declared dead one year later
Buried in the Lorraine Cemetery, Section C, Row 27, Grave 27