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SSGT Eugene Underwood

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SSGT Eugene Underwood

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
23 May 1943 (aged 37)
West Yellowstone, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Staff Sergeant Underwood was a crew member aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-30260, serving with the 385th Bomb Group, 548th Bomb Squadron. While on a training flight out of Lewiston Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot Lt. Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.

The crew killed were:

2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson (pilot)
2nd Lt. George A Brast
2nd Lt. James J. Highley
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski
S/Sgt. Willard McCune
S/Sgt. Lawrence W Medlin
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn
S/Sgt. Gilbert E. Underwood
Staff Sergeant Underwood was a crew member aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress #42-30260, serving with the 385th Bomb Group, 548th Bomb Squadron. While on a training flight out of Lewiston Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot Lt. Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.

The crew killed were:

2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson (pilot)
2nd Lt. George A Brast
2nd Lt. James J. Highley
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski
S/Sgt. Willard McCune
S/Sgt. Lawrence W Medlin
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn
S/Sgt. Gilbert E. Underwood

Bio by: Tim Cook

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ASN 33156038; Entered the service from Pennsylvania

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