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Sgt Harold Burgess “Hoot” Bowers

Birth: 20 Jul 1916
Drummond, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA
Death: 12 Sep 1944 (aged 28)
Indonesia
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery

Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Plot: "Plane Lost at Sea"
Memorial ID: 106296188 View Source

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106296188/harold_burgess-bowers: accessed ), memorial page for Sgt Harold Burgess “Hoot” Bowers (20 Jul 1916–12 Sep 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 106296188, citing Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Phyllis Medeiros (contributor 47736797).

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Harold Burgess Bowers- in 1936 at Oklahoma A & M, now Oklahoma State University. He graduated in the class of 1938.

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16 July 1938: Wedding of Harold "Hoot" Bowers to Katherine Lee Zahn of Clinton, Oklahoma. (detail) The wedding at the First Baptist Church of Clinton.

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The Bowers/Zahn Wedding Party

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1939: Birth of child. Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma

Wife: Katherine Lee "Kate" (Zahn)Bowers holding their daughter, Georgia Pearl Bowers.

Left to right: Elaine (Jennings) Zahn, sister-in-law; George Grover Zahn Jr., brother; Hoot Bowers; new grandparents: Frank Howard Bowers and Minnie Estella (Burgess) Bowers.

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1st on left: TSgt. Harold B. Bowers getting lemonade from the Red Cross in 1945. Photo appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in the 6 January 1945 edition by POST photographer Larry Keighley about the 13th Air Force and the 41st bombing run on the Japanese held island of Yap in the South Pacific.

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Crew Picture: Harold Bowers standing 2nd from right.
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"As navigator, it was Thomas' job to plot the course that would take the plane to the target and back to base safely. On board his plane, radar operator Technical Sergeant Harold Bowers would use the radar to pin point possible targets for their B-24 to bomb. Each B-24 had several gunners to protect the craft from Japanese fighters. Manning two of those .50 caliber machine guns, were Gunners S/Sgt. Edward Brinke and S/Sgt Leslie Crocker. T/Sgt. Floyd Fleming (Engineer) would man the top turret guns. 1st Lt. Issac H. Hanff, the B-24's pilot, was working on getting his star above his wings that were pinned on his chest. Receiving the coveted Senior Pilot Wings required completion of 20 bomb runs with an Instructor Pilot on board. That P.I. would be 1st Lt. Peter S. Colt. Co-Pilot for the night was 2nd Lt. Damon E. Brown. The remainder of the crew of Thomas' B-24 was Bombardier 1st Lt. Morris M. Zeiler; Staff Sergeant Kenneth N. Arvin; Assistant Engineer and Radio Operator Tech. Sergeant Donnell R. Walker."

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Hoot Bowers, World War II, U. S. Air Corps

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12 July 1944 -South Pacific

Some members of "Colt's Crew "The Snoopers". TSgt. Harold "Hoot" Bowers, Radar Gunner, right front.

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The Liberator

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Memorial to Bomber Crew Plaque at Thomas L. Philbrick Memorial Park. "Snoopers"
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" Lt. Thomas L. Philbrick and the other 10 men who gave their lives that night in 1944 were officially listed as missing, presumed dead. Their plane sank in over 600 feet of water, based on recent research, so any recovery of remains continues to be impractical. Philbrick and his comrades' names are inscribed on the "Tablets of the Missing" at Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines. After the war, Thomas' parents created a memorial park near their home in North Carolina which was maintained for about 40 years. In the park was a plaque mounted on a flag pole that listed the crew members' names who died while serving their country. The plaque is now in the possession of the family."

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Manila, Philippines

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Inscribed Walls of the Missing; Manila, Philippines

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McKinley Park American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines. The inscribed walls of names at top of picture.

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Photo from his parents Find a Grave memorials. Thank you David Schram for adding the picture to their graves in Enid, Oklahoma.

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