Lt. Col. Boyd "Buzz" Wagner - First Ace of WWII - My Newspaper Clipping Collection

 

Lt. Col Boyd David "Buzz" Wagner (October 26, 1916 - November 29, 1942) was the First United States Army Air Corp (Force) - Fighter Ace of World War II. He was born in Emeigh, Cambria County and grew up in the Nanty Glo area before their family later moved to Johnstown. The following clippings are from a scrapbook of WWII soldiers that my mother's cousin - Erma Rose Gloor - kept during the war. She was a childhood friend of Wagner's. And I know that members of my own family went to his funeral at Grandview. My grandmother said that the line to get into the cemetery reached the whole way down Millcreek Road. He was also written up in LIFE Magazine but I no longer have access to that since I donated it.