from Contributor: FRANK Jr. (49790674) •
Suggested edit: Your bio is, as far as I an aware, totally correct regarding the mid-air collision of the two B-26 C's involved in a training exercise. Boyette, FL. was small community deemed sparcely populated enough that aircraft from McDill field could use it for combat training missions. Lt.Waddell was the Mission Commander and Chief instructor flying B-26C serial #41-35188. The aircraft flying immediately adjacent, piloted by Lt.Watt, suffered a propeller "overspeed" causing his aircraft to collide with #41-35188 resulting in the loss of both aircraft and their crews.
As you read the extended story...it reads kinda like the mid-air was caused when B-26C #41-35188 ran into its self. I wish the serial # of Lt.Watt's B-26 but unfortunately I don't. Just thought it should be looked at. Very respectfully, Frank Waddell
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USAAF WORLD WAR II
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell KIA
Graduate USMA Class of 1942
Hometown: Illinois
Squadron: 597BS 397th Bomb Group
Service# O-024842
Awards:
Pilot
Target: Training
Mission Date: 21-Jul-43
Serial Number: # 41-35188
Aircraft Model B-26C
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location: Macdill field Boyette, Florida
Cause: Mid air collision with B-26C
# 41-35188 Crew
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell Pilot
2nd/Lt. Frederick N. Stockho
S/Sgt. Herbert T. Fleming
Sgt. Herbert H. Keller
Sgt. John R. Apfel
#
1st/Lt. John T. Watt Jr. Pilot
2nd/Lt. Jim M. Williams
Sgt. Albert J. Cozens Jr.
Sgt. Howard F. Haas
Frank Waddell was born in New Jersey, raised in the Middle West and came to West Point after two years at a small college in Missouri. Frank make the first team in plebe football as a blocking back and line backer. Later, he was a dependable quarterback on the A Squad. He also excelled as a dash man on the track team. He was appointed cadet captain, company commander of C Company, in his First Class year. On graduation early in the first year of the greatest war in history, he elected the Army Air Corps and quickly became an able pilot. Frank died in a crash of his B-26 aircraft while on a training flight in Florida on 21 July 1943,. His son, Frank Jr., was born one month later and has become a fine successful young man.
Frank Dwight Waddell married Dorothy Evangeline Means Aug 1, 1942 in Osage, Missouri
Suggested edit: Your bio is, as far as I an aware, totally correct regarding the mid-air collision of the two B-26 C's involved in a training exercise. Boyette, FL. was small community deemed sparcely populated enough that aircraft from McDill field could use it for combat training missions. Lt.Waddell was the Mission Commander and Chief instructor flying B-26C serial #41-35188. The aircraft flying immediately adjacent, piloted by Lt.Watt, suffered a propeller "overspeed" causing his aircraft to collide with #41-35188 resulting in the loss of both aircraft and their crews.
As you read the extended story...it reads kinda like the mid-air was caused when B-26C #41-35188 ran into its self. I wish the serial # of Lt.Watt's B-26 but unfortunately I don't. Just thought it should be looked at. Very respectfully, Frank Waddell
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USAAF WORLD WAR II
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell KIA
Graduate USMA Class of 1942
Hometown: Illinois
Squadron: 597BS 397th Bomb Group
Service# O-024842
Awards:
Pilot
Target: Training
Mission Date: 21-Jul-43
Serial Number: # 41-35188
Aircraft Model B-26C
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location: Macdill field Boyette, Florida
Cause: Mid air collision with B-26C
# 41-35188 Crew
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell Pilot
2nd/Lt. Frederick N. Stockho
S/Sgt. Herbert T. Fleming
Sgt. Herbert H. Keller
Sgt. John R. Apfel
#
1st/Lt. John T. Watt Jr. Pilot
2nd/Lt. Jim M. Williams
Sgt. Albert J. Cozens Jr.
Sgt. Howard F. Haas
Frank Waddell was born in New Jersey, raised in the Middle West and came to West Point after two years at a small college in Missouri. Frank make the first team in plebe football as a blocking back and line backer. Later, he was a dependable quarterback on the A Squad. He also excelled as a dash man on the track team. He was appointed cadet captain, company commander of C Company, in his First Class year. On graduation early in the first year of the greatest war in history, he elected the Army Air Corps and quickly became an able pilot. Frank died in a crash of his B-26 aircraft while on a training flight in Florida on 21 July 1943,. His son, Frank Jr., was born one month later and has become a fine successful young man.
Frank Dwight Waddell married Dorothy Evangeline Means Aug 1, 1942 in Osage, Missouri
from Contributor: FRANK Jr. (49790674) •
Suggested edit: Your bio is, as far as I an aware, totally correct regarding the mid-air collision of the two B-26 C's involved in a training exercise. Boyette, FL. was small community deemed sparcely populated enough that aircraft from McDill field could use it for combat training missions. Lt.Waddell was the Mission Commander and Chief instructor flying B-26C serial #41-35188. The aircraft flying immediately adjacent, piloted by Lt.Watt, suffered a propeller "overspeed" causing his aircraft to collide with #41-35188 resulting in the loss of both aircraft and their crews.
As you read the extended story...it reads kinda like the mid-air was caused when B-26C #41-35188 ran into its self. I wish the serial # of Lt.Watt's B-26 but unfortunately I don't. Just thought it should be looked at. Very respectfully, Frank Waddell
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USAAF WORLD WAR II
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell KIA
Graduate USMA Class of 1942
Hometown: Illinois
Squadron: 597BS 397th Bomb Group
Service# O-024842
Awards:
Pilot
Target: Training
Mission Date: 21-Jul-43
Serial Number: # 41-35188
Aircraft Model B-26C
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location: Macdill field Boyette, Florida
Cause: Mid air collision with B-26C
# 41-35188 Crew
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell Pilot
2nd/Lt. Frederick N. Stockho
S/Sgt. Herbert T. Fleming
Sgt. Herbert H. Keller
Sgt. John R. Apfel
#
1st/Lt. John T. Watt Jr. Pilot
2nd/Lt. Jim M. Williams
Sgt. Albert J. Cozens Jr.
Sgt. Howard F. Haas
Frank Waddell was born in New Jersey, raised in the Middle West and came to West Point after two years at a small college in Missouri. Frank make the first team in plebe football as a blocking back and line backer. Later, he was a dependable quarterback on the A Squad. He also excelled as a dash man on the track team. He was appointed cadet captain, company commander of C Company, in his First Class year. On graduation early in the first year of the greatest war in history, he elected the Army Air Corps and quickly became an able pilot. Frank died in a crash of his B-26 aircraft while on a training flight in Florida on 21 July 1943,. His son, Frank Jr., was born one month later and has become a fine successful young man.
Frank Dwight Waddell married Dorothy Evangeline Means Aug 1, 1942 in Osage, Missouri
Suggested edit: Your bio is, as far as I an aware, totally correct regarding the mid-air collision of the two B-26 C's involved in a training exercise. Boyette, FL. was small community deemed sparcely populated enough that aircraft from McDill field could use it for combat training missions. Lt.Waddell was the Mission Commander and Chief instructor flying B-26C serial #41-35188. The aircraft flying immediately adjacent, piloted by Lt.Watt, suffered a propeller "overspeed" causing his aircraft to collide with #41-35188 resulting in the loss of both aircraft and their crews.
As you read the extended story...it reads kinda like the mid-air was caused when B-26C #41-35188 ran into its self. I wish the serial # of Lt.Watt's B-26 but unfortunately I don't. Just thought it should be looked at. Very respectfully, Frank Waddell
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USAAF WORLD WAR II
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell KIA
Graduate USMA Class of 1942
Hometown: Illinois
Squadron: 597BS 397th Bomb Group
Service# O-024842
Awards:
Pilot
Target: Training
Mission Date: 21-Jul-43
Serial Number: # 41-35188
Aircraft Model B-26C
Aircraft Letter:
Aircraft Name:
Location: Macdill field Boyette, Florida
Cause: Mid air collision with B-26C
# 41-35188 Crew
1st/Lt. Frank D. Waddell Pilot
2nd/Lt. Frederick N. Stockho
S/Sgt. Herbert T. Fleming
Sgt. Herbert H. Keller
Sgt. John R. Apfel
#
1st/Lt. John T. Watt Jr. Pilot
2nd/Lt. Jim M. Williams
Sgt. Albert J. Cozens Jr.
Sgt. Howard F. Haas
Frank Waddell was born in New Jersey, raised in the Middle West and came to West Point after two years at a small college in Missouri. Frank make the first team in plebe football as a blocking back and line backer. Later, he was a dependable quarterback on the A Squad. He also excelled as a dash man on the track team. He was appointed cadet captain, company commander of C Company, in his First Class year. On graduation early in the first year of the greatest war in history, he elected the Army Air Corps and quickly became an able pilot. Frank died in a crash of his B-26 aircraft while on a training flight in Florida on 21 July 1943,. His son, Frank Jr., was born one month later and has become a fine successful young man.
Frank Dwight Waddell married Dorothy Evangeline Means Aug 1, 1942 in Osage, Missouri
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