Joplin Globe, Friday edition, January 16, 1942, Page A 9
9 KILLED IN CRASH OF BOMBING PLANE -- Army Ship Plunges and Burns While on Route Flight Southeast of Boise, Ida.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 15 -- (AP) -- Two officers and seven enlisted men were killed outright yesterday afternoon in an army bombing plane which crashed and burned in Sage county 13 miles southeast of Boise near the Black creek reservoir, the Second air force announced tonight.
The men's watches stopped at 2:20.
The dead were listed as: Second Lieutenant Elmer M. Munn, jr., pilot, Fort Worth, Tex.
Second Lieutenant Darrell Wing, co-pilot, Phoenix, Ariz.
Staff Sergeant Carl Funkhouser, Skedee, Okla.
Staff Sergeant Carmen R. Gismondi, Oliver, Pa.
Private First Class Andre A. Chisholm, Woodside, Long Island, N.Y.
Private Robert F. Adams, Vale, Ore.
Private Lloyd Knight, Thompsonville, Ill.
Private Leland Sanders, Odessa, Mo.
Private Stanley Sansenbach, Parkersburg, Ia.
The announcement said the plane was on a routine flight.
A Union Pacific section workman was first to see the wreckage.
He flagged down a passenger train to notify the conductor. The latter reported the crash when the train reached Boise.
Gowen Field crash trucks and ambulances were sent to the scene.
(submitted by E. Ackerman, 1/28/13)
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #20760223
Enlistment Date: 05/13/1941
76th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group
Andre A. Chisholm is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Douglas County, Kansas.
Idaho, U.S., Death Records, 1890-1971 lists place of death as Nine miles SE of Gowen Field, Ada County, Idaho. Usual residence of deceased is 4708 67th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. Birthplace is Bixby, Oklahoma on 01/18/1921. Date of death is 01/14/1942 at 2:22pm due to airplane crash.
U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists died in service. Interred on January 22nd, 1942.
***I would like to thank chuck Find A Grave ID 46623503 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
Joplin Globe, Friday edition, January 16, 1942, Page A 9
9 KILLED IN CRASH OF BOMBING PLANE -- Army Ship Plunges and Burns While on Route Flight Southeast of Boise, Ida.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 15 -- (AP) -- Two officers and seven enlisted men were killed outright yesterday afternoon in an army bombing plane which crashed and burned in Sage county 13 miles southeast of Boise near the Black creek reservoir, the Second air force announced tonight.
The men's watches stopped at 2:20.
The dead were listed as: Second Lieutenant Elmer M. Munn, jr., pilot, Fort Worth, Tex.
Second Lieutenant Darrell Wing, co-pilot, Phoenix, Ariz.
Staff Sergeant Carl Funkhouser, Skedee, Okla.
Staff Sergeant Carmen R. Gismondi, Oliver, Pa.
Private First Class Andre A. Chisholm, Woodside, Long Island, N.Y.
Private Robert F. Adams, Vale, Ore.
Private Lloyd Knight, Thompsonville, Ill.
Private Leland Sanders, Odessa, Mo.
Private Stanley Sansenbach, Parkersburg, Ia.
The announcement said the plane was on a routine flight.
A Union Pacific section workman was first to see the wreckage.
He flagged down a passenger train to notify the conductor. The latter reported the crash when the train reached Boise.
Gowen Field crash trucks and ambulances were sent to the scene.
(submitted by E. Ackerman, 1/28/13)
**************************************************
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #20760223
Enlistment Date: 05/13/1941
76th Bombardment Squadron, 42nd Bombardment Group
Andre A. Chisholm is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Douglas County, Kansas.
Idaho, U.S., Death Records, 1890-1971 lists place of death as Nine miles SE of Gowen Field, Ada County, Idaho. Usual residence of deceased is 4708 67th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. Birthplace is Bixby, Oklahoma on 01/18/1921. Date of death is 01/14/1942 at 2:22pm due to airplane crash.
U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists died in service. Interred on January 22nd, 1942.
***I would like to thank chuck Find A Grave ID 46623503 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***
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