Born to Lewis Franklin Creed Sr. and Bertha Winifred Teel Creed Price. Graduated from Poly High School in 1946 and Long Beach City College. Married Nancy Fernandez.
He trained at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX and graduated at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV. He completed 105 missions over Korea before flying with an F-86 jet-fighter group, the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing, to the United States Air Force Base at Hahn, Germany, August 4, 1953. 1st Lt. Creed died of injuries suffered when his F-86 Sabre jet crashed near Hahn, Germany, as he he came in a dead-stick landing.
Surviving are his wife Nancy, son, Steven, and infant daughter, Suzanne who were with him in Germany; his father Lewis F. Creed of Long Beach; his mother Mrs. Winifred Price of Bakersfield, two step-sisters, Jean Jackson Thomas of Long Beach and Eunice Judy Jackson Ringland of San Rafael, and his grandmother Mrs. Mae Sturdy of Long Beach.
Flying-safety trophy awarded seminannually by the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing to the tactical squadron with the best flying safety record was named after 1st Lt. Lewis F. Creed, who was the first jet casualty after the wing's arrival in Europe.
He was also honored with a street named after him on the Hahn Air Force base in November of 1954, Creed Blvd.
He trained at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX and graduated at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV. He completed 105 missions over Korea before flying with an F-86 jet-fighter group, the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing, to the United States Air Force Base at Hahn, Germany, August 4, 1953. 1st Lt. Creed died of injuries suffered when his F-86 Sabre jet crashed near Hahn, Germany, as he he came in a dead-stick landing.
Surviving are his wife Nancy, son, Steven, and infant daughter, Suzanne who were with him in Germany; his father Lewis F. Creed of Long Beach; his mother Mrs. Winifred Price of Bakersfield, two step-sisters, Jean Jackson Thomas of Long Beach and Eunice Judy Jackson Ringland of San Rafael, and his grandmother Mrs. Mae Sturdy of Long Beach.
Flying-safety trophy awarded seminannually by the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing to the tactical squadron with the best flying safety record was named after 1st Lt. Lewis F. Creed, who was the first jet casualty after the wing's arrival in Europe.
He was also honored with a street named after him on the Hahn Air Force base in November of 1954, Creed Blvd.
Born to Lewis Franklin Creed Sr. and Bertha Winifred Teel Creed Price. Graduated from Poly High School in 1946 and Long Beach City College. Married Nancy Fernandez.
He trained at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX and graduated at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV. He completed 105 missions over Korea before flying with an F-86 jet-fighter group, the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing, to the United States Air Force Base at Hahn, Germany, August 4, 1953. 1st Lt. Creed died of injuries suffered when his F-86 Sabre jet crashed near Hahn, Germany, as he he came in a dead-stick landing.
Surviving are his wife Nancy, son, Steven, and infant daughter, Suzanne who were with him in Germany; his father Lewis F. Creed of Long Beach; his mother Mrs. Winifred Price of Bakersfield, two step-sisters, Jean Jackson Thomas of Long Beach and Eunice Judy Jackson Ringland of San Rafael, and his grandmother Mrs. Mae Sturdy of Long Beach.
Flying-safety trophy awarded seminannually by the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing to the tactical squadron with the best flying safety record was named after 1st Lt. Lewis F. Creed, who was the first jet casualty after the wing's arrival in Europe.
He was also honored with a street named after him on the Hahn Air Force base in November of 1954, Creed Blvd.
He trained at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX and graduated at Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV. He completed 105 missions over Korea before flying with an F-86 jet-fighter group, the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing, to the United States Air Force Base at Hahn, Germany, August 4, 1953. 1st Lt. Creed died of injuries suffered when his F-86 Sabre jet crashed near Hahn, Germany, as he he came in a dead-stick landing.
Surviving are his wife Nancy, son, Steven, and infant daughter, Suzanne who were with him in Germany; his father Lewis F. Creed of Long Beach; his mother Mrs. Winifred Price of Bakersfield, two step-sisters, Jean Jackson Thomas of Long Beach and Eunice Judy Jackson Ringland of San Rafael, and his grandmother Mrs. Mae Sturdy of Long Beach.
Flying-safety trophy awarded seminannually by the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing to the tactical squadron with the best flying safety record was named after 1st Lt. Lewis F. Creed, who was the first jet casualty after the wing's arrival in Europe.
He was also honored with a street named after him on the Hahn Air Force base in November of 1954, Creed Blvd.
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