In Loving Memory of Sheldon…
Killed in service of his country in WWII due to an uncontrollable fire in the cockpit during a non-operational flight. The low altitude crash occurred around 10:35 AM soon after takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts heading to home station RAF Alconbury. Instructions were to land at Eye airfield near Thorpe Abbotts. Crash was in nearby Brome killing all aboard along with two of the four civilian road workers and two others later from injuries.
The crew was assigned to lead the 100th Bomb Group that day. Pathfinder ship in 482nd BG outfitted earlier that year as the first with H2S radar technology from the British. 482nd Pathfinders were assigned out to 8th Air Force bombing groups. The mission got scrubbed due to weather over the target that morning. Thorpe Abbots was home of the 100th BG where they were being briefed.
Eight of the crew remains were repatriated to US and were reburied in family graves in 1948 and the five remaining servicemen were brought from Brookwood Cemetery to the completed Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire. Laying of the wreath at Madingley a/k/a Cambridge American Cemetery was done for the five in this crash by Steve Andrews who is on the team for the 80th anniversary memorial. The dedication is set for November 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. in Brome on the Oaksmere Country Hotel grounds.
Sheldon was a Georgia Institute of Technology student in the Class of 1944. He attended two years from September 1940 to January 1942 and studied Economics ("ECo" in records). His studies were cut short due to serving in the war.
He was designated as a Gold Star alumnus. His name is on a photo of a WWII memorial plaque that was commemorated in 1971. Its whereabouts are unknown by their archive who did a preliminary search. It's not in the original student center location. (If someone finds out, I will add its location here). The archive has a reply Gold Star letter from his brother Stephen McCormick in 1948. He mentions a poem written by fellow student Lt. Borden who wrote Flier's Reward and Other Poems privately published by his parents in 1948 after his death. This poem was published in the alumni magazine, which was sent to Sheldon 's brother a week after the letter was received.
Horace and Sheldon attendance at the university overlapped by a year, but we don't know if they were acquainted. Horace studied Chemical Engineering.
Two promising young lives cut short by tragedy and war.
Lest we forget.
Contributor: arborvitae (47298569)
Killed in service of his country in WWII due to an uncontrollable fire in the cockpit during a non-operational flight. The low altitude crash occurred around 10:35 AM soon after takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts heading to home station RAF Alconbury. Instructions were to land at Eye airfield near Thorpe Abbotts. Crash was in nearby Brome killing all aboard along with two of the four civilian road workers and two others later from injuries.
The crew was assigned to lead the 100th Bomb Group that day. Pathfinder ship in 482nd BG outfitted earlier that year as the first with H2S radar technology from the British. 482nd Pathfinders were assigned out to 8th Air Force bombing groups. The mission got scrubbed due to weather over the target that morning. Thorpe Abbots was home of the 100th BG where they were being briefed.
Eight of the crew remains were repatriated to US and were reburied in family graves in 1948 and the five remaining servicemen were brought from Brookwood Cemetery to the completed Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire. Laying of the wreath at Madingley a/k/a Cambridge American Cemetery was done for the five in this crash by Steve Andrews who is on the team for the 80th anniversary memorial. The dedication is set for November 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. in Brome on the Oaksmere Country Hotel grounds.
Sheldon was a Georgia Institute of Technology student in the Class of 1944. He attended two years from September 1940 to January 1942 and studied Economics ("ECo" in records). His studies were cut short due to serving in the war.
He was designated as a Gold Star alumnus. His name is on a photo of a WWII memorial plaque that was commemorated in 1971. Its whereabouts are unknown by their archive who did a preliminary search. It's not in the original student center location. (If someone finds out, I will add its location here). The archive has a reply Gold Star letter from his brother Stephen McCormick in 1948. He mentions a poem written by fellow student Lt. Borden who wrote Flier's Reward and Other Poems privately published by his parents in 1948 after his death. This poem was published in the alumni magazine, which was sent to Sheldon 's brother a week after the letter was received.
Horace and Sheldon attendance at the university overlapped by a year, but we don't know if they were acquainted. Horace studied Chemical Engineering.
Two promising young lives cut short by tragedy and war.
Lest we forget.
Contributor: arborvitae (47298569)
In Loving Memory of Sheldon…
Killed in service of his country in WWII due to an uncontrollable fire in the cockpit during a non-operational flight. The low altitude crash occurred around 10:35 AM soon after takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts heading to home station RAF Alconbury. Instructions were to land at Eye airfield near Thorpe Abbotts. Crash was in nearby Brome killing all aboard along with two of the four civilian road workers and two others later from injuries.
The crew was assigned to lead the 100th Bomb Group that day. Pathfinder ship in 482nd BG outfitted earlier that year as the first with H2S radar technology from the British. 482nd Pathfinders were assigned out to 8th Air Force bombing groups. The mission got scrubbed due to weather over the target that morning. Thorpe Abbots was home of the 100th BG where they were being briefed.
Eight of the crew remains were repatriated to US and were reburied in family graves in 1948 and the five remaining servicemen were brought from Brookwood Cemetery to the completed Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire. Laying of the wreath at Madingley a/k/a Cambridge American Cemetery was done for the five in this crash by Steve Andrews who is on the team for the 80th anniversary memorial. The dedication is set for November 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. in Brome on the Oaksmere Country Hotel grounds.
Sheldon was a Georgia Institute of Technology student in the Class of 1944. He attended two years from September 1940 to January 1942 and studied Economics ("ECo" in records). His studies were cut short due to serving in the war.
He was designated as a Gold Star alumnus. His name is on a photo of a WWII memorial plaque that was commemorated in 1971. Its whereabouts are unknown by their archive who did a preliminary search. It's not in the original student center location. (If someone finds out, I will add its location here). The archive has a reply Gold Star letter from his brother Stephen McCormick in 1948. He mentions a poem written by fellow student Lt. Borden who wrote Flier's Reward and Other Poems privately published by his parents in 1948 after his death. This poem was published in the alumni magazine, which was sent to Sheldon 's brother a week after the letter was received.
Horace and Sheldon attendance at the university overlapped by a year, but we don't know if they were acquainted. Horace studied Chemical Engineering.
Two promising young lives cut short by tragedy and war.
Lest we forget.
Contributor: arborvitae (47298569)
Killed in service of his country in WWII due to an uncontrollable fire in the cockpit during a non-operational flight. The low altitude crash occurred around 10:35 AM soon after takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts heading to home station RAF Alconbury. Instructions were to land at Eye airfield near Thorpe Abbotts. Crash was in nearby Brome killing all aboard along with two of the four civilian road workers and two others later from injuries.
The crew was assigned to lead the 100th Bomb Group that day. Pathfinder ship in 482nd BG outfitted earlier that year as the first with H2S radar technology from the British. 482nd Pathfinders were assigned out to 8th Air Force bombing groups. The mission got scrubbed due to weather over the target that morning. Thorpe Abbots was home of the 100th BG where they were being briefed.
Eight of the crew remains were repatriated to US and were reburied in family graves in 1948 and the five remaining servicemen were brought from Brookwood Cemetery to the completed Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridgeshire. Laying of the wreath at Madingley a/k/a Cambridge American Cemetery was done for the five in this crash by Steve Andrews who is on the team for the 80th anniversary memorial. The dedication is set for November 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. in Brome on the Oaksmere Country Hotel grounds.
Sheldon was a Georgia Institute of Technology student in the Class of 1944. He attended two years from September 1940 to January 1942 and studied Economics ("ECo" in records). His studies were cut short due to serving in the war.
He was designated as a Gold Star alumnus. His name is on a photo of a WWII memorial plaque that was commemorated in 1971. Its whereabouts are unknown by their archive who did a preliminary search. It's not in the original student center location. (If someone finds out, I will add its location here). The archive has a reply Gold Star letter from his brother Stephen McCormick in 1948. He mentions a poem written by fellow student Lt. Borden who wrote Flier's Reward and Other Poems privately published by his parents in 1948 after his death. This poem was published in the alumni magazine, which was sent to Sheldon 's brother a week after the letter was received.
Horace and Sheldon attendance at the university overlapped by a year, but we don't know if they were acquainted. Horace studied Chemical Engineering.
Two promising young lives cut short by tragedy and war.
Lest we forget.
Contributor: arborvitae (47298569)
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SON
SHELDON V. McCORMICK
LIEUTENANT A.A.F.
FEB. 19. 1922 - NOV. 10. 1943
DIED IN EYE, ENGLAND IN LINE OF DUTY
REBURIED JACKSONVILLE, FLA. JULY 28, 1948
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