Mourners sing at the services for Ray at Riverside National Cemetery. A tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator, Ray had just completed what would have been his final mission before being sent home, but volunteered for the fateful mission to fill in for an airman who was unable to fly.

( Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / October 27, 2010 )

Mourners sing at the services for Ray at Riverside National Cemetery. A tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator, Ray had just completed what would have been his final mission before being sent home, but volunteered for the fateful mission to fill in for an airman who was unable to fly.

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