2LT Joseph Josiah Beeson Jr. (1921-1944)

2LT Joseph Josiah Beeson Jr. Veteran

Birth

2 Jun 1921

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA

Death

26 Feb 1944 (aged 22)

Palmer Lake, El Paso County, Colorado, USA

Burial

Mount Olivet Cemetery

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P_270_6

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Second Lieutenant Beeson served with the 234th Combat Crew Training Squadron from Clovis Army Airfield, New Mexico.

He was the pilot and one of ten airmen killed when B-17F Flying Fortress #42-3155 lost control and crashed, due to severe icing conditions, ten miles west of Palmer Lake, Colorado, while on a flight from Lowry Field to Clovis A.A.F.

The other airmen who perished in the accident:

2nd Lt. Harry L. Barry
2nd Lt. Harry B. Davis
Flt. Off. Fred Gentry, Jr.
2nd Lt. Jack P. Laird
Cpl. Joseph J. Fendrick
Cpl. Ralph C. Judah, Jr.
Cpl. James F. Perry
Cpl. Glenn L. Stutsman
Cpl. James R. Young

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Walter Woodward Beeson

1922–2001

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