Note: Veterans Admin records show rank as 2ND LT US ARMY AIR CORPS, WORLD WAR II; however, headstone shows 1ST LT
Additional information provided by Eric Ackerman of Topeka, Kansas:
THE BEE, DANVILLE, VA., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944, PAGE 15, HOLD SERVICES FOR 6 OF 24 CRASH VICTIMS
MEMPHIS, March 9--(UP)--The Fourth Ferrying Group conducted special military services here yesterday for five Army officers who died in the crash of an American Airlines plane into the Mississippi river Feb. 10 and whose bodies were never recovered. Twenty-four persons were killed in the crash. Bodies of six of the 11 service people aboard and that of one civilian were found. Services yesterday were for First Lt. Harold L. Halla of New York, with the 20th Ferrying Group at Nashville; Second Lt. Charles E. Brumfield of Jackson, Miss.; Second Lt. Carl W. Rasmussen of Caribou, Me.; First Lt. Isadore Bohrer of Baltimore, Md.; and Second Lt. Elizabeth McGuire of Little Rock, Ark.
Additional information provided by Eric Ackerman of Topeka, Kansas:
THE BEE, DANVILLE, VA., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944, PAGE 15, HOLD SERVICES FOR 6 OF 24 CRASH VICTIMS
MEMPHIS, March 9--(UP)--The Fourth Ferrying Group conducted special military services here yesterday for five Army officers who died in the crash of an American Airlines plane into the Mississippi river Feb. 10 and whose bodies were never recovered. Twenty-four persons were killed in the crash. Bodies of six of the 11 service people aboard and that of one civilian were found. Services yesterday were for First Lt. Harold L. Halla of New York, with the 20th Ferrying Group at Nashville; Second Lt. Charles E. Brumfield of Jackson, Miss.; Second Lt. Carl W. Rasmussen of Caribou, Me.; First Lt. Isadore Bohrer of Baltimore, Md.; and Second Lt. Elizabeth McGuire of Little Rock, Ark.
Note: Veterans Admin records show rank as 2ND LT US ARMY AIR CORPS, WORLD WAR II; however, headstone shows 1ST LT
Additional information provided by Eric Ackerman of Topeka, Kansas:
THE BEE, DANVILLE, VA., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944, PAGE 15, HOLD SERVICES FOR 6 OF 24 CRASH VICTIMS
MEMPHIS, March 9--(UP)--The Fourth Ferrying Group conducted special military services here yesterday for five Army officers who died in the crash of an American Airlines plane into the Mississippi river Feb. 10 and whose bodies were never recovered. Twenty-four persons were killed in the crash. Bodies of six of the 11 service people aboard and that of one civilian were found. Services yesterday were for First Lt. Harold L. Halla of New York, with the 20th Ferrying Group at Nashville; Second Lt. Charles E. Brumfield of Jackson, Miss.; Second Lt. Carl W. Rasmussen of Caribou, Me.; First Lt. Isadore Bohrer of Baltimore, Md.; and Second Lt. Elizabeth McGuire of Little Rock, Ark.
Additional information provided by Eric Ackerman of Topeka, Kansas:
THE BEE, DANVILLE, VA., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944, PAGE 15, HOLD SERVICES FOR 6 OF 24 CRASH VICTIMS
MEMPHIS, March 9--(UP)--The Fourth Ferrying Group conducted special military services here yesterday for five Army officers who died in the crash of an American Airlines plane into the Mississippi river Feb. 10 and whose bodies were never recovered. Twenty-four persons were killed in the crash. Bodies of six of the 11 service people aboard and that of one civilian were found. Services yesterday were for First Lt. Harold L. Halla of New York, with the 20th Ferrying Group at Nashville; Second Lt. Charles E. Brumfield of Jackson, Miss.; Second Lt. Carl W. Rasmussen of Caribou, Me.; First Lt. Isadore Bohrer of Baltimore, Md.; and Second Lt. Elizabeth McGuire of Little Rock, Ark.
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