Ehle Reber enlisted 15 Jul 1941 Air Corps at Fort Ord, California. 1st Lieutenant - Pilot 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group. Killed on 23 Jan 1943 near Lorient, France. Plane went down in Bay of Biscay after being shot down by German fighters. His name has been inscripted on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge, England.
Awared Purple Heart 14 Jun 1943 at Klamath Falls.