LIEUTENANT TRANSPORT PILOT DIED IN AIR OVER FRANCE.
Rex was the son of Alex Royal and Alice Bomon Pond. He was born in Lewiston, Utah. He enlisted on Jan 9, 1942, sadly he was killed in action while serving with the Army Air Corps. The date is May 23, 1945, just 15 days after Germany surrenders in World War II. An Army Air Corps C-46 "Commando" aircraft with a crew of four and carrying 40 wounded American soldiers and repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris area -- and, then, finally home -- plunges from the skies just outside the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris, with one of its two engines on fire. All on board are killed, including the wounded on their way to recovery and home.
Rex was the son of Alex Royal and Alice Bomon Pond. He was born in Lewiston, Utah. He enlisted on Jan 9, 1942, sadly he was killed in action while serving with the Army Air Corps. The date is May 23, 1945, just 15 days after Germany surrenders in World War II. An Army Air Corps C-46 "Commando" aircraft with a crew of four and carrying 40 wounded American soldiers and repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris area -- and, then, finally home -- plunges from the skies just outside the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris, with one of its two engines on fire. All on board are killed, including the wounded on their way to recovery and home.
LIEUTENANT TRANSPORT PILOT DIED IN AIR OVER FRANCE.
Rex was the son of Alex Royal and Alice Bomon Pond. He was born in Lewiston, Utah. He enlisted on Jan 9, 1942, sadly he was killed in action while serving with the Army Air Corps. The date is May 23, 1945, just 15 days after Germany surrenders in World War II. An Army Air Corps C-46 "Commando" aircraft with a crew of four and carrying 40 wounded American soldiers and repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris area -- and, then, finally home -- plunges from the skies just outside the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris, with one of its two engines on fire. All on board are killed, including the wounded on their way to recovery and home.
Rex was the son of Alex Royal and Alice Bomon Pond. He was born in Lewiston, Utah. He enlisted on Jan 9, 1942, sadly he was killed in action while serving with the Army Air Corps. The date is May 23, 1945, just 15 days after Germany surrenders in World War II. An Army Air Corps C-46 "Commando" aircraft with a crew of four and carrying 40 wounded American soldiers and repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris area -- and, then, finally home -- plunges from the skies just outside the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris, with one of its two engines on fire. All on board are killed, including the wounded on their way to recovery and home.
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1LT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
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