Lt. James N. Norris
Washington, April 17. (INS) --A military funeral was arranged today for Lt. James N. NORRIS, 28, of Rochester, Ind., navy reserve pilot, killed when his fighter plane crashed and burned Sunday.
Norris will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington following services at 10 a.m. Thursday. Members of his reserve squadron 661 will act as pallbearers.
The pilot was returning to Webster Field, Md., from bombing target practice when his Navy F-6-F hellcat nosed over and burst into flames.
Fellow pilots in the flight he was leading said he may have misjudged the landing or may have been caught in a downdraft. A board of inquiry is to be appointed to determine the cause of the accident.
Lt. James M. [sic] NORRIS, 28 years old, a Naval air reservist, was killed yesterday when his Hellcat fighter crashed near the Patuxent Naval Air Station, Maryland.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo NORRIS, who live on a farm near here, were notified his ship spun in making a landing.
Lt. Norris, a native of Fulton county, lived at Silver Spring, Md. He was a gradate student at the University of Maryland.
He also was a graduate of Richland Center (Ind.) high school and attended Purdue University before enlisting in the Naval Air Corps.
He had been attached to the air reserve training unit at the Anaconda Naval Air Training Station, Washington, D.C., since 1947.
During the war, Norris served at various naval air training stations in Illinois, Florida and Texas, and was attached for a time to an operating squadron at Daytona Beach, Fla. Officials said he had some fleet experience.
His was the lead plane of a group of air fighters that left the Anacosta station at 9 a.m. yesterday for boming and rocket practice.
Witnesses to the accident said he made a "typical carrier approach" when attempting to land at Webster Field, making a right turn onto the field.
Officials said there was a possibility his plane may have been caught by a sudden downdraft. The left wing hit the ground, causing the ship to overturn and crash. It exploded immediately.
Other survivors are the widow, Mrs. Dorothy HICKMAN NORRIS; a son, Preston NORRIS; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille FISHER, Bremen, and Mrs. Betty MILLER, Rochester, and four brothers, Nelson NORRIS, Wheaton, Ill., Cecil NORRIS, Aurora; Manford NORRIS, Omaha, Neb., and Wendell NORRIS, Rochester.
Definite funeral arrangements have not been made, but burial probably will be in Arlington national Cemetery at Washington.
Washington, April 17. (INS) --A military funeral was arranged today for Lt. James N. NORRIS, 28, of Rochester, Ind., navy reserve pilot, killed when his fighter plane crashed and burned Sunday.
Norris will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington following services at 10 a.m. Thursday. Members of his reserve squadron 661 will act as pallbearers.
The pilot was returning to Webster Field, Md., from bombing target practice when his Navy F-6-F hellcat nosed over and burst into flames.
Fellow pilots in the flight he was leading said he may have misjudged the landing or may have been caught in a downdraft. A board of inquiry is to be appointed to determine the cause of the accident.
Lt. James M. [sic] NORRIS, 28 years old, a Naval air reservist, was killed yesterday when his Hellcat fighter crashed near the Patuxent Naval Air Station, Maryland.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo NORRIS, who live on a farm near here, were notified his ship spun in making a landing.
Lt. Norris, a native of Fulton county, lived at Silver Spring, Md. He was a gradate student at the University of Maryland.
He also was a graduate of Richland Center (Ind.) high school and attended Purdue University before enlisting in the Naval Air Corps.
He had been attached to the air reserve training unit at the Anaconda Naval Air Training Station, Washington, D.C., since 1947.
During the war, Norris served at various naval air training stations in Illinois, Florida and Texas, and was attached for a time to an operating squadron at Daytona Beach, Fla. Officials said he had some fleet experience.
His was the lead plane of a group of air fighters that left the Anacosta station at 9 a.m. yesterday for boming and rocket practice.
Witnesses to the accident said he made a "typical carrier approach" when attempting to land at Webster Field, making a right turn onto the field.
Officials said there was a possibility his plane may have been caught by a sudden downdraft. The left wing hit the ground, causing the ship to overturn and crash. It exploded immediately.
Other survivors are the widow, Mrs. Dorothy HICKMAN NORRIS; a son, Preston NORRIS; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille FISHER, Bremen, and Mrs. Betty MILLER, Rochester, and four brothers, Nelson NORRIS, Wheaton, Ill., Cecil NORRIS, Aurora; Manford NORRIS, Omaha, Neb., and Wendell NORRIS, Rochester.
Definite funeral arrangements have not been made, but burial probably will be in Arlington national Cemetery at Washington.
Lt. James N. Norris
Washington, April 17. (INS) --A military funeral was arranged today for Lt. James N. NORRIS, 28, of Rochester, Ind., navy reserve pilot, killed when his fighter plane crashed and burned Sunday.
Norris will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington following services at 10 a.m. Thursday. Members of his reserve squadron 661 will act as pallbearers.
The pilot was returning to Webster Field, Md., from bombing target practice when his Navy F-6-F hellcat nosed over and burst into flames.
Fellow pilots in the flight he was leading said he may have misjudged the landing or may have been caught in a downdraft. A board of inquiry is to be appointed to determine the cause of the accident.
Lt. James M. [sic] NORRIS, 28 years old, a Naval air reservist, was killed yesterday when his Hellcat fighter crashed near the Patuxent Naval Air Station, Maryland.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo NORRIS, who live on a farm near here, were notified his ship spun in making a landing.
Lt. Norris, a native of Fulton county, lived at Silver Spring, Md. He was a gradate student at the University of Maryland.
He also was a graduate of Richland Center (Ind.) high school and attended Purdue University before enlisting in the Naval Air Corps.
He had been attached to the air reserve training unit at the Anaconda Naval Air Training Station, Washington, D.C., since 1947.
During the war, Norris served at various naval air training stations in Illinois, Florida and Texas, and was attached for a time to an operating squadron at Daytona Beach, Fla. Officials said he had some fleet experience.
His was the lead plane of a group of air fighters that left the Anacosta station at 9 a.m. yesterday for boming and rocket practice.
Witnesses to the accident said he made a "typical carrier approach" when attempting to land at Webster Field, making a right turn onto the field.
Officials said there was a possibility his plane may have been caught by a sudden downdraft. The left wing hit the ground, causing the ship to overturn and crash. It exploded immediately.
Other survivors are the widow, Mrs. Dorothy HICKMAN NORRIS; a son, Preston NORRIS; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille FISHER, Bremen, and Mrs. Betty MILLER, Rochester, and four brothers, Nelson NORRIS, Wheaton, Ill., Cecil NORRIS, Aurora; Manford NORRIS, Omaha, Neb., and Wendell NORRIS, Rochester.
Definite funeral arrangements have not been made, but burial probably will be in Arlington national Cemetery at Washington.
Washington, April 17. (INS) --A military funeral was arranged today for Lt. James N. NORRIS, 28, of Rochester, Ind., navy reserve pilot, killed when his fighter plane crashed and burned Sunday.
Norris will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington following services at 10 a.m. Thursday. Members of his reserve squadron 661 will act as pallbearers.
The pilot was returning to Webster Field, Md., from bombing target practice when his Navy F-6-F hellcat nosed over and burst into flames.
Fellow pilots in the flight he was leading said he may have misjudged the landing or may have been caught in a downdraft. A board of inquiry is to be appointed to determine the cause of the accident.
Lt. James M. [sic] NORRIS, 28 years old, a Naval air reservist, was killed yesterday when his Hellcat fighter crashed near the Patuxent Naval Air Station, Maryland.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo NORRIS, who live on a farm near here, were notified his ship spun in making a landing.
Lt. Norris, a native of Fulton county, lived at Silver Spring, Md. He was a gradate student at the University of Maryland.
He also was a graduate of Richland Center (Ind.) high school and attended Purdue University before enlisting in the Naval Air Corps.
He had been attached to the air reserve training unit at the Anaconda Naval Air Training Station, Washington, D.C., since 1947.
During the war, Norris served at various naval air training stations in Illinois, Florida and Texas, and was attached for a time to an operating squadron at Daytona Beach, Fla. Officials said he had some fleet experience.
His was the lead plane of a group of air fighters that left the Anacosta station at 9 a.m. yesterday for boming and rocket practice.
Witnesses to the accident said he made a "typical carrier approach" when attempting to land at Webster Field, making a right turn onto the field.
Officials said there was a possibility his plane may have been caught by a sudden downdraft. The left wing hit the ground, causing the ship to overturn and crash. It exploded immediately.
Other survivors are the widow, Mrs. Dorothy HICKMAN NORRIS; a son, Preston NORRIS; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille FISHER, Bremen, and Mrs. Betty MILLER, Rochester, and four brothers, Nelson NORRIS, Wheaton, Ill., Cecil NORRIS, Aurora; Manford NORRIS, Omaha, Neb., and Wendell NORRIS, Rochester.
Definite funeral arrangements have not been made, but burial probably will be in Arlington national Cemetery at Washington.
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James Milburn Norris, Indiana, Lieutenant USNR,
World War II , June 28, 1921 - April 16, 1950
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