Sergeant Amory was an aerial gunner aboard U.S. Army Air Forces B-24H Liberator #42-52493.
Returning to Hammer Field, Fresno, California from a gunnery training flight, he was found unconscious in the rear gun turret when he failed to report his status over the plane's intercom. Despite attempts to revive him, he died from lack of oxygen at high altitude (they were flying at 24,000 feet elevation). His mask regulator failed due to icing.
(Reported over Point San Martin, in Fresno County, California).
NOTE: Date of burial 8/3/1944, same date
as burial of Eugene Amory. Nelly Amory plot
Returning to Hammer Field, Fresno, California from a gunnery training flight, he was found unconscious in the rear gun turret when he failed to report his status over the plane's intercom. Despite attempts to revive him, he died from lack of oxygen at high altitude (they were flying at 24,000 feet elevation). His mask regulator failed due to icing.
(Reported over Point San Martin, in Fresno County, California).
NOTE: Date of burial 8/3/1944, same date
as burial of Eugene Amory. Nelly Amory plot
Sergeant Amory was an aerial gunner aboard U.S. Army Air Forces B-24H Liberator #42-52493.
Returning to Hammer Field, Fresno, California from a gunnery training flight, he was found unconscious in the rear gun turret when he failed to report his status over the plane's intercom. Despite attempts to revive him, he died from lack of oxygen at high altitude (they were flying at 24,000 feet elevation). His mask regulator failed due to icing.
(Reported over Point San Martin, in Fresno County, California).
NOTE: Date of burial 8/3/1944, same date
as burial of Eugene Amory. Nelly Amory plot
Returning to Hammer Field, Fresno, California from a gunnery training flight, he was found unconscious in the rear gun turret when he failed to report his status over the plane's intercom. Despite attempts to revive him, he died from lack of oxygen at high altitude (they were flying at 24,000 feet elevation). His mask regulator failed due to icing.
(Reported over Point San Martin, in Fresno County, California).
NOTE: Date of burial 8/3/1944, same date
as burial of Eugene Amory. Nelly Amory plot
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from New York; ASN 11092124
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