Private, 41st Bomb Squadron, 15th Bomb Group, World War II.
Aerial gunner aboard B-25A Mitchell #40-2193.
After departing Westover Field, Chicopee, Massachusetts, for an anti-submarine patrol along the Atlantic coast, the twin engine medium bomber experienced a failure of the port motor. After a few moments of accessing the situation, the pilot opted to turn around and head back. But then the starboard motor failed, and a forced emergency landing in a clearing in the woods was attempted near West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Investigators speculated the pilot, in an effort not to overshoot the clearing, came in at a steep angle and belly slammed into the ground, causing the load of depth charges to detonate, destroying the plane and killing the crew of five. The accident occurred at approximately 06:30 hours.
The four other airmen were:
2LT George L Dover, O-424929, NC, Pilot
2LT Neil W Frame, O-424941, CA, Co-Pilot
SSGT Robert H Trammell Jr, 14049223, GA, Radio Operator
PVT Robert H Meredith, 14046591, MS, Bombardier
FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.
West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.
The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03
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Enlisted July 24, 1941. Service ID: 33072711.
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Father: Joseph
Aerial gunner aboard B-25A Mitchell #40-2193.
After departing Westover Field, Chicopee, Massachusetts, for an anti-submarine patrol along the Atlantic coast, the twin engine medium bomber experienced a failure of the port motor. After a few moments of accessing the situation, the pilot opted to turn around and head back. But then the starboard motor failed, and a forced emergency landing in a clearing in the woods was attempted near West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Investigators speculated the pilot, in an effort not to overshoot the clearing, came in at a steep angle and belly slammed into the ground, causing the load of depth charges to detonate, destroying the plane and killing the crew of five. The accident occurred at approximately 06:30 hours.
The four other airmen were:
2LT George L Dover, O-424929, NC, Pilot
2LT Neil W Frame, O-424941, CA, Co-Pilot
SSGT Robert H Trammell Jr, 14049223, GA, Radio Operator
PVT Robert H Meredith, 14046591, MS, Bombardier
FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.
West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.
The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03
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Enlisted July 24, 1941. Service ID: 33072711.
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Father: Joseph
Private, 41st Bomb Squadron, 15th Bomb Group, World War II.
Aerial gunner aboard B-25A Mitchell #40-2193.
After departing Westover Field, Chicopee, Massachusetts, for an anti-submarine patrol along the Atlantic coast, the twin engine medium bomber experienced a failure of the port motor. After a few moments of accessing the situation, the pilot opted to turn around and head back. But then the starboard motor failed, and a forced emergency landing in a clearing in the woods was attempted near West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Investigators speculated the pilot, in an effort not to overshoot the clearing, came in at a steep angle and belly slammed into the ground, causing the load of depth charges to detonate, destroying the plane and killing the crew of five. The accident occurred at approximately 06:30 hours.
The four other airmen were:
2LT George L Dover, O-424929, NC, Pilot
2LT Neil W Frame, O-424941, CA, Co-Pilot
SSGT Robert H Trammell Jr, 14049223, GA, Radio Operator
PVT Robert H Meredith, 14046591, MS, Bombardier
FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.
West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.
The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03
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Enlisted July 24, 1941. Service ID: 33072711.
~
Father: Joseph
Aerial gunner aboard B-25A Mitchell #40-2193.
After departing Westover Field, Chicopee, Massachusetts, for an anti-submarine patrol along the Atlantic coast, the twin engine medium bomber experienced a failure of the port motor. After a few moments of accessing the situation, the pilot opted to turn around and head back. But then the starboard motor failed, and a forced emergency landing in a clearing in the woods was attempted near West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Investigators speculated the pilot, in an effort not to overshoot the clearing, came in at a steep angle and belly slammed into the ground, causing the load of depth charges to detonate, destroying the plane and killing the crew of five. The accident occurred at approximately 06:30 hours.
The four other airmen were:
2LT George L Dover, O-424929, NC, Pilot
2LT Neil W Frame, O-424941, CA, Co-Pilot
SSGT Robert H Trammell Jr, 14049223, GA, Radio Operator
PVT Robert H Meredith, 14046591, MS, Bombardier
FIVE ARMY FLIERS DIE AS BOMBER CRASHES, EXPLODES IN RHODE ISLAND.
West Greenwich, R.I. -- Five army fliers, including two officers, were killed today when a medium bomber on a routine flight crashed, exploded and burned in woods on Hopkins Hill. The bomber, reported overdue at Westover Field, Mass., carried two officers and three enlisted men when it crashed. Headquarters of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field identified the dead as:
Pilot, Second Lieut. GEORGE L. DOVER, 25, of Shelby, N.C.
Co-pilot, Second Lieut. NEIL W. FRAME, 24, of Porterville, Cal.
Radio operator, Staff Sergeant R. H. TRAMMEL, 25, of Brunswick, Ga.
Bombardier, Pvt. R. R. MEREDITH, 21, Memphis, Tenn.
Gunner, Pvt. T. J. RUSH, 27, of Philadelphia.
The wreckage was discovered after farmers had reported to the army's Hillsgrove airport, a few miles east of here, that they heard a crash and saw flames near Hopkins Hill at about 6:30 a.m.
One farmer and two of his children who hurried to the scene to investigate, pending arrival of military authorities, were felled when the blazing wreckage exploded. They were not injured, however. Two truckloads of soldiers and four state troopers were sent to the scene. They reported that all that remained of the plane was a single engine, wing tips and a small section of the fuselage buried in a fire-blackened crater.
The Coshocton Tribune Ohio 1942-04-03
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Enlisted July 24, 1941. Service ID: 33072711.
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Father: Joseph
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