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Home Town Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; Lincoln, California
Last Address Muroc AAF (later Edwards AFB), California
Date of Passing Jun 05, 1948
Location of Interment Lincoln Cemetery - Lincoln, California
He was born in Canada but moved to Lincoln, CA when he was 13 and he maintained dual citizenship for the rest of his life.
He was an A-20 Havoc pilot in the Mediterranean Theater in WWII and a test pilot after the war.
He and 4 others were killed in the crash of the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing bomber.
Edwards AFB (formerly Muroc AAF), CA is named for him.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Algeria-French Morocco Campaign (1942)
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Description (Algeria-French Morocco Campaign 8-11 November 1942 ) Three days after their victory at El Alamein the Allies opened a new front with an assault on Algeria and French Morocco. Twelfth Air Force, with some units based on Gibraltar, some aboard the invasion fleet, and some bearing paratroops from England, entered combat at this time. The campaign was brief, for the French in Algeria and French Morocco offered little resistance to the invaders.