Second Lieutenant Mayhood served with the 439th Bomb Squad, 319th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
Killed in service, when his medium twin engine bomber, B-26B Marauder #41-17736 was involved in a mid air collision with another B-26 while training, in the skies near Harding Field, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The two planes crashed into a wooded area, north of Zion City. A detached wing from one of the bombers landed in the backyard of a residence, missing the house by thirty feet.
Son of Ray H. and Iliff Purcell Mayhood.
The air crew killed aboard Bill's B-26 were:
2nd Lt. Marvin A Zahn, Pilot
PFC Frederick A Spiess
PFC Clyde E Warden
And aboard B-26B #41-17739 were:
2nd Lt. William J Dover, Pilot
2nd Lt. Wilbur R Weber
Cpl. Frederick C Edmonds
PFC Vernon R Davis
PFC Phillip J Peterson
Killed in service, when his medium twin engine bomber, B-26B Marauder #41-17736 was involved in a mid air collision with another B-26 while training, in the skies near Harding Field, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The two planes crashed into a wooded area, north of Zion City. A detached wing from one of the bombers landed in the backyard of a residence, missing the house by thirty feet.
Son of Ray H. and Iliff Purcell Mayhood.
The air crew killed aboard Bill's B-26 were:
2nd Lt. Marvin A Zahn, Pilot
PFC Frederick A Spiess
PFC Clyde E Warden
And aboard B-26B #41-17739 were:
2nd Lt. William J Dover, Pilot
2nd Lt. Wilbur R Weber
Cpl. Frederick C Edmonds
PFC Vernon R Davis
PFC Phillip J Peterson
Second Lieutenant Mayhood served with the 439th Bomb Squad, 319th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
Killed in service, when his medium twin engine bomber, B-26B Marauder #41-17736 was involved in a mid air collision with another B-26 while training, in the skies near Harding Field, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The two planes crashed into a wooded area, north of Zion City. A detached wing from one of the bombers landed in the backyard of a residence, missing the house by thirty feet.
Son of Ray H. and Iliff Purcell Mayhood.
The air crew killed aboard Bill's B-26 were:
2nd Lt. Marvin A Zahn, Pilot
PFC Frederick A Spiess
PFC Clyde E Warden
And aboard B-26B #41-17739 were:
2nd Lt. William J Dover, Pilot
2nd Lt. Wilbur R Weber
Cpl. Frederick C Edmonds
PFC Vernon R Davis
PFC Phillip J Peterson
Killed in service, when his medium twin engine bomber, B-26B Marauder #41-17736 was involved in a mid air collision with another B-26 while training, in the skies near Harding Field, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The two planes crashed into a wooded area, north of Zion City. A detached wing from one of the bombers landed in the backyard of a residence, missing the house by thirty feet.
Son of Ray H. and Iliff Purcell Mayhood.
The air crew killed aboard Bill's B-26 were:
2nd Lt. Marvin A Zahn, Pilot
PFC Frederick A Spiess
PFC Clyde E Warden
And aboard B-26B #41-17739 were:
2nd Lt. William J Dover, Pilot
2nd Lt. Wilbur R Weber
Cpl. Frederick C Edmonds
PFC Vernon R Davis
PFC Phillip J Peterson
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