Lowell Hoyt Watts
Military
388th BG - 562nd BS
Standing Left to Right: Lowell Watts (P), Robert M. Kennedy (CP), Emmett Murphy (N), Edward J. Kelley (B)
Kneeling Left to Right: Joseph B. Ramsey (FE), Raymond Hess (WG), Ivan Finkle (R/O), Robert Sweeney (BTG), Harold A. Brassfield (TG), Donald W. Taylor (WG)
466th BG Historian
Object Number - UPL 6380 - Lowell Watts Crew 388th BG - 562nd BS Standing Left to Right: Lowell Watts (P), Robert M. Kennedy (CP), Emmett Murphy (N), Edward J. Kelley...
On the return from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-37886 'Blitzin' Betsy' was severely damaged by attacks from several FW190s causing it to collide with another 388th B-17, exploding in mid-air and crashing near Emmen, Holland. Prisoner of War (POW).
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- Date: 4 February 1944
- Date: 3 February 1944
- Date: 30 January 1944
- Date: 29 January 1944
- Date: 24 January 1944
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA | 4 February 1920 | |
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Other Shot Down |
Klazienaveen, Netherlands | 6 March 1944 | Shot down by attacks from multiple FW 190's that wounded the tail gunner, several damaged the tail and set the oxygen bottles and fuel tanks on fire. The aircraft exploded with Watts still at the controls in a caldron of fire in the cockpit, blowing him clear. He was fortunately wearing his parachute and was able to pull the rip cord. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 15 March 1944 | Stalag Luft III |
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Died |
Sun City West, AZ | 7 January 2021 | |
| Sun City West, AZ, USA |
Revisions
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Phone interview with Lowell Watts - November 2017
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3089 / MACR 3089, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database