FRANCIS BRADY IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
Sgt. Francis H. Brady, 22, so of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brady, Edge Grove, near Hanover, was killed in the crash of a U.S. Army aeroplane as it attempted to take off from a field at West Palm Beach, Florida, Friday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Brady received a telegram from Army air officials Friday morning informing them of the tragedy. The message said details would follow. It was not learned whether young Brady, a pilot, was at the controls at the time or whether anyone else was killed or injured.
Brady enlisted in the Air corps last January and was immediately assigned to the ferrying command. His latest station was with the 26th Perrying Squadron, Nashville, Tennessee. Although he had made perilous trips to Russia, India, and Africa in the past three months, it remained for a crash on a regulation flying field in his own land to take his life.
Brady was home on a short furlough only three weeks ago. When he left he said he expected to be home for Christmas. A graduate of Central High School, McSherrystown, young Brady is survived, besides his parents, by 11 brothers and sisters; Mrs. Barbara Bair and Joseph Brady, Littlestown, and Angela, Pauline, Mary Ann, Edward, Mark, James, Andrew and Earl Jr., all at home, and Richard Brady, a civilian government employee at Pearl Harbor.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
November 21 1942

AWAIT SERGEANTS BODY
Funeral arrangements for Sergeant Francis H. Brady, 21, radio technician attached to the Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Corps, Nashville, Tennessee, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Brady, Edge Grove, who lost his life in a plane crash which claimed the lives of five companions at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida, Friday morning, await the arrival of the body.
Late Sunday evening the family had not yet received full details of the accident and had only what information was received in the two messages sent, one from the Nashville, Tennessee base and of the Air Corps. where Brady was assigned and the other one from Lieut. Commander M.J.. Wells, reading as follows: "Sorry to inform you that your son, Sergeant Francis H. Brady, was killed at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida, this morning at approximately 9:15 o'clock." When the family called the airport at Nashville, they were told that no information on the accident was available there.
The ship that crashed according to reports was a light bomber and had five other members of the crew, all of whom were killed. The crash occurred it is reported, as the plane attempted a takeoff from Morrison Field.
Sergeant Brady had entered the service on January 14, this year. For four and one-half months after he enlisted, he attended radio school at Scott Field, Illinois. After his graduation from radio school in June, he was attached to the domestic wing of the Air Transport Command, flying about the United States. Later he joined the Caribean wing of service.
Stationed at the Municipal airport, Nashville, Tennessee, Sergeant Brady, at that time holding the grade of Corporal took off, in September on his first trip into foreign lands. In 22 days he made a round trip to the Soviet Union. On this trip, during which he served as radio operator with the crew of a bomber flown to Russia, the edge grove youth spent a night in a bomb shelter in Cairo, Egypt, felt the earth vibrate when enemy planes attacked an airport outside the city.
Upon his return to the United States, Corporal Brady was granted a five-day furlough,, made his first visit home since his enlistment. A month later he was home again, this time after a 21-day trip which took him to Russia and India. This journey required 63 flying hours. Upon is completion the Adams county young man was promoted to the grade of sergeant, was given another five-day furlough which ended last week.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
November 23 1942

MILITARY FUNERAL ON THURSDAY FOR SERGEANT BRADY
A Military funeral will be conducted on Thursday morning for Sergeant Francis H. Brady, 21 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Brady, Edge Grove, one of six me who lost their lives when a light Army bomber crashed while taking off from the Morrison Field head quarters of the Army Air Transport Command's Caribbean Wing, Friday morning. The young man was a radio operator.
The parents of Sergeant Brady were notified Monday by Army officials at West Palm Beach, Fla., where Morrison Field is located, that their son's body, accompanied by a staff sergeant serving as a military escort will arrive in York by train on Wednesday morning at 10:50 a.m. It will be taken from York to the Brady home by J.T. Kerman, McSherrystown funeral director.
The funeral will be held on Thursday morning with a solemn high mass of requiem at 10 o'clock in Conewago Chapel; the very Rev. John F. O'Donnell rector. The celebrant will be the Rev. Carl Brady, principal of York Catholic high school, an uncle of the young man. The other officiant of the mass have not yet been named.
The color guard, firing squad, bugler and officers for the military service are being provided by Hanover Post No. 2506, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Harold H. Bair Post No. 14, American Legion, Hanover
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
November 24 1942