Second Lieutenant Rex A. Rice was from Belton, South Carolina. After the Joe Noyes crew went missing in September 1943, Joe’s mother, Francis, reached out to Rex’s mother, and they both played a large role in contacting the other families. In recent years, Joe’s nephew, Tom Noyes, was able to scan some of the correspondence between the families.
Resources
- The 95th Bomb Group (H) Database
- Rex A. Rice – The American Air Museum
- Marguerite “Punky” Mattison Rice, relative
- Gregory Blair Rice, relative
- Anna Villanueva, relative
- Keith Taylor, relative
- Ayden Alley, relative