The News, Frederick, MD, October 2, 1944
SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM GUY DUVALL, U. S. Marine Corps, son of Edwin Byng and Katherine E. Russell Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick, has been officially reported as killed in an airplane crash while on a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles from Galveston, Tex., on September 20. He had previously been reported missing.
Memorial services were held at Holy Redeemer Catholic church at Kensington on Saturday morning for the 20yearold officer, who was a graduate of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, class of '42.
At the time of his death, Lieut. Duvall, with another young man from Elmira, N. Y., who was also lost, was flying a dive bomber in squadron formation at an altitude of less then 700 feet when the motor cut off and his plane crashed and exploded upon contact with the water. His body was not recovered.
Lieut. Duvall enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve as an aviation cadet September 23, 1942, and upon satisfactory completion of his primary flight training was ordered to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., for training.
He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on January 11, 1944, with designation as naval aviator, and in March was ordered to the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. In May he was assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 931 at Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Tex.
Besides his mother and father he is survived by a brother, Lieut. Russell B. Duvall, U. S. Army Air Corps, who is an instrument instructor at Columbus Army Air Field, Columbus, Miss, a sister, Miss Katharine Marie Duvall, at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Michael F. Russell, 348 East Third street.
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The News, Frederick, MD, October 12, 1944
When the motor of the bomber on which they were flying suddenly cut off during a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, 2nd Lieut. William Guy Duvall, and a fellow flyer lost their lives as the plane crashed and exploded. Aged 20 years, Lieut. Duvall was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick.
SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM GUY DUVALL, U. S. Marine Corps, son of Edwin Byng and Katherine E. Russell Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick, has been officially reported as killed in an airplane crash while on a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles from Galveston, Tex., on September 20. He had previously been reported missing.
Memorial services were held at Holy Redeemer Catholic church at Kensington on Saturday morning for the 20yearold officer, who was a graduate of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, class of '42.
At the time of his death, Lieut. Duvall, with another young man from Elmira, N. Y., who was also lost, was flying a dive bomber in squadron formation at an altitude of less then 700 feet when the motor cut off and his plane crashed and exploded upon contact with the water. His body was not recovered.
Lieut. Duvall enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve as an aviation cadet September 23, 1942, and upon satisfactory completion of his primary flight training was ordered to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., for training.
He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on January 11, 1944, with designation as naval aviator, and in March was ordered to the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. In May he was assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 931 at Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Tex.
Besides his mother and father he is survived by a brother, Lieut. Russell B. Duvall, U. S. Army Air Corps, who is an instrument instructor at Columbus Army Air Field, Columbus, Miss, a sister, Miss Katharine Marie Duvall, at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Michael F. Russell, 348 East Third street.
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The News, Frederick, MD, October 12, 1944
When the motor of the bomber on which they were flying suddenly cut off during a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, 2nd Lieut. William Guy Duvall, and a fellow flyer lost their lives as the plane crashed and exploded. Aged 20 years, Lieut. Duvall was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick.
The News, Frederick, MD, October 2, 1944
SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM GUY DUVALL, U. S. Marine Corps, son of Edwin Byng and Katherine E. Russell Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick, has been officially reported as killed in an airplane crash while on a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles from Galveston, Tex., on September 20. He had previously been reported missing.
Memorial services were held at Holy Redeemer Catholic church at Kensington on Saturday morning for the 20yearold officer, who was a graduate of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, class of '42.
At the time of his death, Lieut. Duvall, with another young man from Elmira, N. Y., who was also lost, was flying a dive bomber in squadron formation at an altitude of less then 700 feet when the motor cut off and his plane crashed and exploded upon contact with the water. His body was not recovered.
Lieut. Duvall enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve as an aviation cadet September 23, 1942, and upon satisfactory completion of his primary flight training was ordered to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., for training.
He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on January 11, 1944, with designation as naval aviator, and in March was ordered to the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. In May he was assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 931 at Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Tex.
Besides his mother and father he is survived by a brother, Lieut. Russell B. Duvall, U. S. Army Air Corps, who is an instrument instructor at Columbus Army Air Field, Columbus, Miss, a sister, Miss Katharine Marie Duvall, at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Michael F. Russell, 348 East Third street.
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The News, Frederick, MD, October 12, 1944
When the motor of the bomber on which they were flying suddenly cut off during a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, 2nd Lieut. William Guy Duvall, and a fellow flyer lost their lives as the plane crashed and exploded. Aged 20 years, Lieut. Duvall was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick.
SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM GUY DUVALL, U. S. Marine Corps, son of Edwin Byng and Katherine E. Russell Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick, has been officially reported as killed in an airplane crash while on a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles from Galveston, Tex., on September 20. He had previously been reported missing.
Memorial services were held at Holy Redeemer Catholic church at Kensington on Saturday morning for the 20yearold officer, who was a graduate of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, class of '42.
At the time of his death, Lieut. Duvall, with another young man from Elmira, N. Y., who was also lost, was flying a dive bomber in squadron formation at an altitude of less then 700 feet when the motor cut off and his plane crashed and exploded upon contact with the water. His body was not recovered.
Lieut. Duvall enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve as an aviation cadet September 23, 1942, and upon satisfactory completion of his primary flight training was ordered to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., for training.
He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on January 11, 1944, with designation as naval aviator, and in March was ordered to the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. In May he was assigned to the Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 931 at Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake, Tex.
Besides his mother and father he is survived by a brother, Lieut. Russell B. Duvall, U. S. Army Air Corps, who is an instrument instructor at Columbus Army Air Field, Columbus, Miss, a sister, Miss Katharine Marie Duvall, at home, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Michael F. Russell, 348 East Third street.
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The News, Frederick, MD, October 12, 1944
When the motor of the bomber on which they were flying suddenly cut off during a training flight over the Gulf of Mexico, 2nd Lieut. William Guy Duvall, and a fellow flyer lost their lives as the plane crashed and exploded. Aged 20 years, Lieut. Duvall was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Duvall, of Kensington, formerly of Frederick.
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