Private first class George Robert Newcomer, 24, grandson of Mrs. Nettie Newcomer, 59 West King Street, was killed in an airplane crash in Dutch New Guinea on May 13, the war department recently reported to his wife, Mrs. Mary Conklin Newcomer of Middletown, New York.
Pfc. Newcomer was reared in Shippensburg by his grandmother after the death of his parents, the late George and Vera Newcomer. He attended the Shippensburg high school but left a few months before his graduation.
He entered the Army Air Corps June 2, 1943, after working as foreman in the parachute department at Columbia Air Base, South Carolina. He received his training at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, Camp Upton, New York, Camp Amarillo, Texas, Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He went overseas on April 2, 1944.
Besides his widow and grandmother he is survived by a daughter, Sharon Lee Newcomer, two and a half years old.
The News Chronicle
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, June 12, 1945
Pfc. Newcomer was reared in Shippensburg by his grandmother after the death of his parents, the late George and Vera Newcomer. He attended the Shippensburg high school but left a few months before his graduation.
He entered the Army Air Corps June 2, 1943, after working as foreman in the parachute department at Columbia Air Base, South Carolina. He received his training at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, Camp Upton, New York, Camp Amarillo, Texas, Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He went overseas on April 2, 1944.
Besides his widow and grandmother he is survived by a daughter, Sharon Lee Newcomer, two and a half years old.
The News Chronicle
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, June 12, 1945
Private first class George Robert Newcomer, 24, grandson of Mrs. Nettie Newcomer, 59 West King Street, was killed in an airplane crash in Dutch New Guinea on May 13, the war department recently reported to his wife, Mrs. Mary Conklin Newcomer of Middletown, New York.
Pfc. Newcomer was reared in Shippensburg by his grandmother after the death of his parents, the late George and Vera Newcomer. He attended the Shippensburg high school but left a few months before his graduation.
He entered the Army Air Corps June 2, 1943, after working as foreman in the parachute department at Columbia Air Base, South Carolina. He received his training at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, Camp Upton, New York, Camp Amarillo, Texas, Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He went overseas on April 2, 1944.
Besides his widow and grandmother he is survived by a daughter, Sharon Lee Newcomer, two and a half years old.
The News Chronicle
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, June 12, 1945
Pfc. Newcomer was reared in Shippensburg by his grandmother after the death of his parents, the late George and Vera Newcomer. He attended the Shippensburg high school but left a few months before his graduation.
He entered the Army Air Corps June 2, 1943, after working as foreman in the parachute department at Columbia Air Base, South Carolina. He received his training at Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina, Camp Upton, New York, Camp Amarillo, Texas, Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He went overseas on April 2, 1944.
Besides his widow and grandmother he is survived by a daughter, Sharon Lee Newcomer, two and a half years old.
The News Chronicle
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Tuesday, June 12, 1945
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