Arthur Reid Bowers

Military
media-14173.jpeg UPL 14173 2nd Lt. Arthur Reed Bowers in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang "Sweet Arlene".
Nose Artwork by S/Sgt Donald E. Allen.

Personal research & 'The Debden Warbirds' by Frank E. Speer.

Object Number - UPL 14173 - 2nd Lt. Arthur Reed Bowers in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang "Sweet Arlene". Nose Artwork by S/Sgt Donald E. Allen.

Lt. Bowers was from Tiskilwa, Illinois, and was assigned to the 4th Fighter Group, 334th Squadron on 16 November 1944. He remained there until the end of the war.

He flew a P-51 Mustang QP-S named "Sweet Arlene", and was credited with six enemy aircraft destroyed.



Post War: For 28 years, he was a Bureau Service fuel distributor, a painting contractor and a farmer until retiring in 1983.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Skippy
  • Unit: 479th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron 435th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Sweet Arlene
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Charlestown, IN, USA 24 January 1917 Son of Hallie A and Geneva [Spencer] Bowers.

Other

Assigned

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 16 November 1944 Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Promotion

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 17 April 1945 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Died

Princeton, IL 61356, USA 29 April 1990 Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.
Tiskilwa, IL 61368, USA

Buried

Mount Bloom Cemetery Tiskilwa Bureau County IL Mount Bloom Cemetery Tiskilwa Bureau County Illinois, USA

Revisions

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Sources

His marriage certificate and grave index both spell his middle name as Reid, not Reed.

1) "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2S9-7MGS : 9 December 2019), Arthur Reid Bowers, ; Burial, Tiskilwa, Bureau, Illinois, United States of America, Mount Bloom Cemetery; citing record ID 154612219, Find a Grave

2) "Florida Marriage Index, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJJ1-12Y : 28 November 2014), Arthur Reld Bowers, 1944; from "Florida, Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001," database and images, Ancestry

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Personal research & 'Eighty-One Aces of the 4th Fighter Group' by Frank Speer.

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'1000 Destroyed' by Capt. Grover C. Hall, Jr. / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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