1LT William Gordon Beard (1908-1936)

1LT William Gordon Beard Veteran

Birth

23 Jan 1908

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA

Death

24 Jan 1936 (aged 28)

Pearl Harbor, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA

Burial

San Francisco National Cemetery

San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Add to Map

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Section OS Row 43A Site 7

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News article in the Daily Telegram (Adrian, MI), 25 Jan 1926.

Lists 6 Army airmen were killed in a night collision of two big bombers which crashed in winding sheets of flame at Luke Field, military air base on Ford Island. "The dead:Lieut. William G. Bears, 28, San Francisco.Staff Sergt. Bernard F. (could be P.) Jablonowsky, 33, Honolulu.Pvt. John B. Hartman, 27, Chicago.Pvt. Bruce Taylor, 26, Puyallup, Wash.Pvt. Truman J. Gardner, 27, Olney, Ill.Pvt. Gordon M. Parkhurst, 43, Yorkville, N. Y.

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