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2LT Frank H Horton-Billard Jr.

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2LT Frank H Horton-Billard Jr. Veteran

Birth
Death
28 Feb 1943 (aged 23)
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Burial
Southold, Suffolk County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Monument New Grave 655
Memorial ID
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5 Lose Lives In Crash of Trainer Plane.

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28. (UP).---Five men were killed when an airplane from Delvalle air base crashed four miles east of the Austin municipal airport during a training flight.

The victims were:

Second Lieut. Jack E. McNeil, Jr., next of kin, C. W. McNeil, Route 2, Cape Griardeau, Mo.

Second Lieut. William F. Ernest; mother, Mrs. Carl Ernest, McLaughlin Heights, Vancouver, Wash.

Second Lieut. Chester F. Steward; next of kin, Mrs. Chester F. Steward, Route 1, Carpenter, Ohio.

Second Lieut. Frank H. Horton-Billard; father, Rev. S. H. Horton-Billard, 239 Eighty-Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tech. Sergt. Russell E. Sampson; wife, Mrs. Dorothy Mae Sampson, Knobnoster, Mo.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 1 Mar 1943

Article kindly provided by Find A Grave contributor Becky Bushnell
5 Lose Lives In Crash of Trainer Plane.

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28. (UP).---Five men were killed when an airplane from Delvalle air base crashed four miles east of the Austin municipal airport during a training flight.

The victims were:

Second Lieut. Jack E. McNeil, Jr., next of kin, C. W. McNeil, Route 2, Cape Griardeau, Mo.

Second Lieut. William F. Ernest; mother, Mrs. Carl Ernest, McLaughlin Heights, Vancouver, Wash.

Second Lieut. Chester F. Steward; next of kin, Mrs. Chester F. Steward, Route 1, Carpenter, Ohio.

Second Lieut. Frank H. Horton-Billard; father, Rev. S. H. Horton-Billard, 239 Eighty-Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tech. Sergt. Russell E. Sampson; wife, Mrs. Dorothy Mae Sampson, Knobnoster, Mo.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 1 Mar 1943

Article kindly provided by Find A Grave contributor Becky Bushnell

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US Marine Corp WWII, US Army Air Corps



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