Lt. Col. William F. Smith, Jr. of Birmingham, AL, was one of three occupants in a B-25D Army Air Force bomber (S/N 41-30577) which crashed into the fog-shrouded Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. LTC Smith, the pilot, was born in Latham, AL, but moved later with his parents to Birmingham, AL. He was a 1942 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He had completed more than 40 missions in Europe with the Eight Air Force and had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Cluster and the Air Medal with Clusters. His wife Martha died in 2003 at the age of 85 in Winslow, ME.
Lt. Col. William F. Smith, Jr. of Birmingham, AL, was one of three occupants in a B-25D Army Air Force bomber (S/N 41-30577) which crashed into the fog-shrouded Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. LTC Smith, the pilot, was born in Latham, AL, but moved later with his parents to Birmingham, AL. He was a 1942 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He had completed more than 40 missions in Europe with the Eight Air Force and had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Cluster and the Air Medal with Clusters. His wife Martha died in 2003 at the age of 85 in Winslow, ME.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
