2LT Donald DeWayne Dowden (1919-1944)

2LT Donald DeWayne Dowden Veteran

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25 Mar 1919

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA

Death

27 May 1944 (aged 25)

South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

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Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery

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Lt. Donald D. Dowden - Navigator US Army Air Corps WWII
Killed during a training mission when his B-24 Liberator failed to gain the necessary altitude & crashed into the face of Mount Holyoke near the Westover Airbase in MA.
Donald was survived by his beloved young wife, Shirley; his parents LaVina Peterson Dowden & Ernest Monroe Dowden and 1 brother, Robert Ernest Dowden.

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2LT, 112 AAF BASE UNIT WORLD WAR II

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