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Sgt George Wilson Ambrose Jr.
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Sgt George Wilson Ambrose Jr. Veteran

Birth
Brunswick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Death
23 Mar 1951 (aged 20)
At Sea
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The Frederick News-Post, March 24, 1951
2 Brunswick Men Aboard Missing Plane

Two Brunswick airmen are aboard a C-124 Air Force transport plane missing on a flight from Maine to England, the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in Omaha, Neb. informed their parents Friday evening.

Among the 53 persons aboard the transport are: Sgt. George W. Ambrose, Jr, 21, son of George W. And Laura Ambrose, 501 Ninth Avenue, Brunswick.

Sgt. Ambrose, better known as "Bunky", has been in the Army Air Forces about 2 years. He was stationed in New Mexico, Texas and Mississippi before being assigned in the C-124 that left Limestone, Maine on Thursday for Mildenhall Air Base, Suffolk, England. It's radio was last heard about 1 o'clock Friday morning 800 miles southwest of Ireland.

He was a member of the 1947 Brunswick High School graduation class.

(thank you Cari Aiken)
The Frederick News-Post, March 24, 1951
2 Brunswick Men Aboard Missing Plane

Two Brunswick airmen are aboard a C-124 Air Force transport plane missing on a flight from Maine to England, the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in Omaha, Neb. informed their parents Friday evening.

Among the 53 persons aboard the transport are: Sgt. George W. Ambrose, Jr, 21, son of George W. And Laura Ambrose, 501 Ninth Avenue, Brunswick.

Sgt. Ambrose, better known as "Bunky", has been in the Army Air Forces about 2 years. He was stationed in New Mexico, Texas and Mississippi before being assigned in the C-124 that left Limestone, Maine on Thursday for Mildenhall Air Base, Suffolk, England. It's radio was last heard about 1 o'clock Friday morning 800 miles southwest of Ireland.

He was a member of the 1947 Brunswick High School graduation class.

(thank you Cari Aiken)

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SGT, US AIR FORCE, KOREA. PURPLE HEART. MIA.



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