WORLD WAR II
Died in a crash of a B-24 in Bermuda.
Son of Alexander and Kathleen Eleura Jones Copeland. Howard married Miriam Jane Cooper on September 23, 1944.
NASHVILLE - Second Lt. Howard C. Copeland, 26, was killed February 6 when the B-24 bomber he was piloting went down in the Atlantic, en route to the Mediterranean area, the War Department notified his wife, Mrs. Jane Copeland, 1415 Gale Lane yesterday.
The bomber was carrying a crew of 10 men.
Lieutenant Copeland, who was last stationed at Davis Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, had been ordered to overseas duty according to Mrs. Copeland.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Copeland of Newport News, Va., he entered the service in April 1943, when he was a student at Clemson College. He was commissioned at Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind., upon completion of pilot training.
His widow, to whom he was married last September, is the former Miss Jane Cooper, and resides with her mother, Mrs. W.T. Hunter, at the Gale Lane address.
Survivors, in addition to his widow and parents, are two brothers, 1st Lt. H.J. Copeland of Newport News and Alexander Copeland, Jr. of Charlotte, NC.
Published in The Nashville Banner, February 26, 1945
Note:
There's a cenotaph for Howard at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, SC with his family.
Died in a crash of a B-24 in Bermuda.
Son of Alexander and Kathleen Eleura Jones Copeland. Howard married Miriam Jane Cooper on September 23, 1944.
NASHVILLE - Second Lt. Howard C. Copeland, 26, was killed February 6 when the B-24 bomber he was piloting went down in the Atlantic, en route to the Mediterranean area, the War Department notified his wife, Mrs. Jane Copeland, 1415 Gale Lane yesterday.
The bomber was carrying a crew of 10 men.
Lieutenant Copeland, who was last stationed at Davis Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, had been ordered to overseas duty according to Mrs. Copeland.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Copeland of Newport News, Va., he entered the service in April 1943, when he was a student at Clemson College. He was commissioned at Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind., upon completion of pilot training.
His widow, to whom he was married last September, is the former Miss Jane Cooper, and resides with her mother, Mrs. W.T. Hunter, at the Gale Lane address.
Survivors, in addition to his widow and parents, are two brothers, 1st Lt. H.J. Copeland of Newport News and Alexander Copeland, Jr. of Charlotte, NC.
Published in The Nashville Banner, February 26, 1945
Note:
There's a cenotaph for Howard at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, SC with his family.
WORLD WAR II
Died in a crash of a B-24 in Bermuda.
Son of Alexander and Kathleen Eleura Jones Copeland. Howard married Miriam Jane Cooper on September 23, 1944.
NASHVILLE - Second Lt. Howard C. Copeland, 26, was killed February 6 when the B-24 bomber he was piloting went down in the Atlantic, en route to the Mediterranean area, the War Department notified his wife, Mrs. Jane Copeland, 1415 Gale Lane yesterday.
The bomber was carrying a crew of 10 men.
Lieutenant Copeland, who was last stationed at Davis Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, had been ordered to overseas duty according to Mrs. Copeland.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Copeland of Newport News, Va., he entered the service in April 1943, when he was a student at Clemson College. He was commissioned at Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind., upon completion of pilot training.
His widow, to whom he was married last September, is the former Miss Jane Cooper, and resides with her mother, Mrs. W.T. Hunter, at the Gale Lane address.
Survivors, in addition to his widow and parents, are two brothers, 1st Lt. H.J. Copeland of Newport News and Alexander Copeland, Jr. of Charlotte, NC.
Published in The Nashville Banner, February 26, 1945
Note:
There's a cenotaph for Howard at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, SC with his family.
Died in a crash of a B-24 in Bermuda.
Son of Alexander and Kathleen Eleura Jones Copeland. Howard married Miriam Jane Cooper on September 23, 1944.
NASHVILLE - Second Lt. Howard C. Copeland, 26, was killed February 6 when the B-24 bomber he was piloting went down in the Atlantic, en route to the Mediterranean area, the War Department notified his wife, Mrs. Jane Copeland, 1415 Gale Lane yesterday.
The bomber was carrying a crew of 10 men.
Lieutenant Copeland, who was last stationed at Davis Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona, had been ordered to overseas duty according to Mrs. Copeland.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Copeland of Newport News, Va., he entered the service in April 1943, when he was a student at Clemson College. He was commissioned at Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind., upon completion of pilot training.
His widow, to whom he was married last September, is the former Miss Jane Cooper, and resides with her mother, Mrs. W.T. Hunter, at the Gale Lane address.
Survivors, in addition to his widow and parents, are two brothers, 1st Lt. H.J. Copeland of Newport News and Alexander Copeland, Jr. of Charlotte, NC.
Published in The Nashville Banner, February 26, 1945
Note:
There's a cenotaph for Howard at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Spartanburg, SC with his family.
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