Franklin Charles Owsley
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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In the grass, beside the Reedham War Memorial, is a memorial stone for crew members who died when their B17s collided on 21 February 1944.
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Photo taken 19 September 2012, Gary Atkins
Involved in a mid-air collision with another B-17 from the same group on return from operations to airfields in GB on 21 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-37963 and crashed on Reedham Marshes, Norfolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 549th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Grain Valley, MO, USA | 27 May 1910 | |
Enlisted |
San Pedro, CA, USA | 21 February 1941 | |
Died |
Reedham, Norwich, Norfolk, UK | 21 February 1944 | |
Buried |
Alamosa, CO, USA | At Alamosa Municipal Cemetery Findagrave.com 63341818 |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / unit history, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces