Son of Isa Brady and Lloyd Amos. He was a graduate of Rankin High School and attended State College in Raleigh for one year before entering the U.S. Army Air Forces on September 27, 1943.
He married Marjorie Eloise Self on July 18, 1944 in Chesterfield, S.C. One child was born into that union (Jack Luther Amos, born April 18, 1945).
After completing aircrew and gunnery training, Sergeant Amos was sent to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, assigned to the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, at Manduria Airfield located in Southern Italy. He was nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator (tail #42-78455) when he was killed in action during a strike over Austria. Initial notification of death related Austria as location of death, but newspaper accounts in 1949 reflect Yugoslavia Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR) 12062: shot down Jan 31, 1945 by anti-aircraft fire and crashed at Marburg/Drau Yugoslavia while returning from a bombing mission on the oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna, Austria. Seven crewmembers were killed, 3 bailed out, were captured, became POWs and were released in 1945.
In 1949, the remains of Sergeant Amos were exhumed from the European burial location and returned to the United States. His burial is recorded in the Greensboro Record, June 29, 1949, and lists surviving family as parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Amos, and two brothers, Fred W. and Herman L., all of Greensboro.
(NOTE: His widow and child were not listed in the final obituary, possibly due to fact that she remarried..., Fred Thomas Wallace on July 18, 1947.)
He married Marjorie Eloise Self on July 18, 1944 in Chesterfield, S.C. One child was born into that union (Jack Luther Amos, born April 18, 1945).
After completing aircrew and gunnery training, Sergeant Amos was sent to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, assigned to the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, at Manduria Airfield located in Southern Italy. He was nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator (tail #42-78455) when he was killed in action during a strike over Austria. Initial notification of death related Austria as location of death, but newspaper accounts in 1949 reflect Yugoslavia Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR) 12062: shot down Jan 31, 1945 by anti-aircraft fire and crashed at Marburg/Drau Yugoslavia while returning from a bombing mission on the oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna, Austria. Seven crewmembers were killed, 3 bailed out, were captured, became POWs and were released in 1945.
In 1949, the remains of Sergeant Amos were exhumed from the European burial location and returned to the United States. His burial is recorded in the Greensboro Record, June 29, 1949, and lists surviving family as parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Amos, and two brothers, Fred W. and Herman L., all of Greensboro.
(NOTE: His widow and child were not listed in the final obituary, possibly due to fact that she remarried..., Fred Thomas Wallace on July 18, 1947.)
Son of Isa Brady and Lloyd Amos. He was a graduate of Rankin High School and attended State College in Raleigh for one year before entering the U.S. Army Air Forces on September 27, 1943.
He married Marjorie Eloise Self on July 18, 1944 in Chesterfield, S.C. One child was born into that union (Jack Luther Amos, born April 18, 1945).
After completing aircrew and gunnery training, Sergeant Amos was sent to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, assigned to the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, at Manduria Airfield located in Southern Italy. He was nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator (tail #42-78455) when he was killed in action during a strike over Austria. Initial notification of death related Austria as location of death, but newspaper accounts in 1949 reflect Yugoslavia Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR) 12062: shot down Jan 31, 1945 by anti-aircraft fire and crashed at Marburg/Drau Yugoslavia while returning from a bombing mission on the oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna, Austria. Seven crewmembers were killed, 3 bailed out, were captured, became POWs and were released in 1945.
In 1949, the remains of Sergeant Amos were exhumed from the European burial location and returned to the United States. His burial is recorded in the Greensboro Record, June 29, 1949, and lists surviving family as parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Amos, and two brothers, Fred W. and Herman L., all of Greensboro.
(NOTE: His widow and child were not listed in the final obituary, possibly due to fact that she remarried..., Fred Thomas Wallace on July 18, 1947.)
He married Marjorie Eloise Self on July 18, 1944 in Chesterfield, S.C. One child was born into that union (Jack Luther Amos, born April 18, 1945).
After completing aircrew and gunnery training, Sergeant Amos was sent to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, assigned to the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 15th Air Force, at Manduria Airfield located in Southern Italy. He was nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator (tail #42-78455) when he was killed in action during a strike over Austria. Initial notification of death related Austria as location of death, but newspaper accounts in 1949 reflect Yugoslavia Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR) 12062: shot down Jan 31, 1945 by anti-aircraft fire and crashed at Marburg/Drau Yugoslavia while returning from a bombing mission on the oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna, Austria. Seven crewmembers were killed, 3 bailed out, were captured, became POWs and were released in 1945.
In 1949, the remains of Sergeant Amos were exhumed from the European burial location and returned to the United States. His burial is recorded in the Greensboro Record, June 29, 1949, and lists surviving family as parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Amos, and two brothers, Fred W. and Herman L., all of Greensboro.
(NOTE: His widow and child were not listed in the final obituary, possibly due to fact that she remarried..., Fred Thomas Wallace on July 18, 1947.)
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