Mountaineers Head For Crash Scene
MILAN, Italy - Itaian [sic] Alpine troops were to begin efforts today to bring down the bodies of a score of Americans lost in a plane crash last November in the Alps south of Cuneo.
The air rescue center at Milan said it would take five or six days to get the victims down from the 9,000-foot crags where their C-47 crashed.
The rescue center said 23 persons were aboard, but U.S. Army earlier announcements had set the number at 20.
Il Corriere Della Sera, a Milan newspaper, said four bodies have been identified. These were Lt. Wesley B. Fleming of Pampa, Tex., the pilot; Sgt. Abram S. Atkins, Sperryville, Va., radio operator; Sgt. Harmon Newell, Kermit, Tex., engineer; and Marie T. Hahn, Ardsley, N.Y., a woman civilian employe of the War Deparment [sic].
Other passengers listed included: Sgt. Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Paris News (Paris, Texas) - 10 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 9)
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Five More Bodies Taken from U.S. Army Plane Wreckage
CUNEO, Italy, Aug. 16 (UP) - Five more unidentified bodies have been taken from the wreckage of a United States Army plane which crashed in the Alps on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt a year ago, it was announced today.
Ten bodies now have been recovered but only two have been identified - SGt. Abram Atkins (hometown not given) and Sgt. Harmon Newell f Kermit, Tex.
Rescue workers expected to recover two more bodies today from the fuselage of the plane which is buried in snow
(Published in The Mexia Daily News (Mexia, Texas) - 16 Aug 1948, Mon - Page 2 and in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 17 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 188))
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Alps Crash Casualty List Is Published
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - (AP) - The Air Force Friday released the casualty list of five crew members and 15 passengers who were killed when a C47 crashed in the Alps last November on a flight from Pisa, Italy, to Frankfurt, Germany.
The two-engine plane went down in snow-covered mountain terrain, and was not sighted until recently. The bodies have now been recovered. Names of the crew follow:
Second Lieutenant Wesley Bruce Fleming, Pampa, Texas, pilot; Second Lieutenant Alfred H. Martison, Williamsburg, Iowa, co-pilot; Major Frank F. Lawrence, San Francisco, Cal., navigator; Sergeant Harmon Newell, Kermit, Texas, technician; Sergeant Abram S. Atkins, radio operator, Sperryville, Va.
Passengers included Sergeant Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 21 Aug 1948, Sat - Page 2)
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Harmon, called Son by his family, died on or about 28 November 1947 in a plane crash while in the service.
Son of Oscar and Lula Newell; brother of: David, Garland, Gene, Lena, Loreta, Richard, Earl, Oscar and Jack.
He had been discharged but then had re-enlisted and was sent back overseas. He was the engineer on an Army C-47 that went down on a mountain a short distance from Italy. Due to the harsh weather it took 8 months to find and recover the plane and it's occupant's.
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1918
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1939
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Mother: Lula Newell
Spouse: Juanita Nicholson
Film Number: 001940178
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 21
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Birth Place: Vernon, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 1 Jul 1941
Registration Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Employer: The Vernon Packing Co
Height: 5 7
Weight: 144
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Lula Newell
Household Members Age Relationship
Harmon Newell 21 Self (Head)
Lula Newell Mother
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
Name: Harmon Newell
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Service Number: RA 18213516
Service Branch: Army
Unit: Air Troop Carrier TC SQ, A C R/M AB
Company: 53d NTC SQ
Enlistment Date: 26 Oct 1942
Death Date: 27 Dec 1947
Cemetery: East View Memorial Park
Cemetery Location: Vernon, Texas, USA
note: Official Army Air Forces records give death date as November 1947 but his headstone shows the date as December 1947.
MILAN, Italy - Itaian [sic] Alpine troops were to begin efforts today to bring down the bodies of a score of Americans lost in a plane crash last November in the Alps south of Cuneo.
The air rescue center at Milan said it would take five or six days to get the victims down from the 9,000-foot crags where their C-47 crashed.
The rescue center said 23 persons were aboard, but U.S. Army earlier announcements had set the number at 20.
Il Corriere Della Sera, a Milan newspaper, said four bodies have been identified. These were Lt. Wesley B. Fleming of Pampa, Tex., the pilot; Sgt. Abram S. Atkins, Sperryville, Va., radio operator; Sgt. Harmon Newell, Kermit, Tex., engineer; and Marie T. Hahn, Ardsley, N.Y., a woman civilian employe of the War Deparment [sic].
Other passengers listed included: Sgt. Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Paris News (Paris, Texas) - 10 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 9)
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Five More Bodies Taken from U.S. Army Plane Wreckage
CUNEO, Italy, Aug. 16 (UP) - Five more unidentified bodies have been taken from the wreckage of a United States Army plane which crashed in the Alps on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt a year ago, it was announced today.
Ten bodies now have been recovered but only two have been identified - SGt. Abram Atkins (hometown not given) and Sgt. Harmon Newell f Kermit, Tex.
Rescue workers expected to recover two more bodies today from the fuselage of the plane which is buried in snow
(Published in The Mexia Daily News (Mexia, Texas) - 16 Aug 1948, Mon - Page 2 and in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 17 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 188))
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Alps Crash Casualty List Is Published
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - (AP) - The Air Force Friday released the casualty list of five crew members and 15 passengers who were killed when a C47 crashed in the Alps last November on a flight from Pisa, Italy, to Frankfurt, Germany.
The two-engine plane went down in snow-covered mountain terrain, and was not sighted until recently. The bodies have now been recovered. Names of the crew follow:
Second Lieutenant Wesley Bruce Fleming, Pampa, Texas, pilot; Second Lieutenant Alfred H. Martison, Williamsburg, Iowa, co-pilot; Major Frank F. Lawrence, San Francisco, Cal., navigator; Sergeant Harmon Newell, Kermit, Texas, technician; Sergeant Abram S. Atkins, radio operator, Sperryville, Va.
Passengers included Sergeant Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 21 Aug 1948, Sat - Page 2)
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Harmon, called Son by his family, died on or about 28 November 1947 in a plane crash while in the service.
Son of Oscar and Lula Newell; brother of: David, Garland, Gene, Lena, Loreta, Richard, Earl, Oscar and Jack.
He had been discharged but then had re-enlisted and was sent back overseas. He was the engineer on an Army C-47 that went down on a mountain a short distance from Italy. Due to the harsh weather it took 8 months to find and recover the plane and it's occupant's.
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1918
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1939
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Mother: Lula Newell
Spouse: Juanita Nicholson
Film Number: 001940178
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 21
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Birth Place: Vernon, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 1 Jul 1941
Registration Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Employer: The Vernon Packing Co
Height: 5 7
Weight: 144
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Lula Newell
Household Members Age Relationship
Harmon Newell 21 Self (Head)
Lula Newell Mother
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
Name: Harmon Newell
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Service Number: RA 18213516
Service Branch: Army
Unit: Air Troop Carrier TC SQ, A C R/M AB
Company: 53d NTC SQ
Enlistment Date: 26 Oct 1942
Death Date: 27 Dec 1947
Cemetery: East View Memorial Park
Cemetery Location: Vernon, Texas, USA
note: Official Army Air Forces records give death date as November 1947 but his headstone shows the date as December 1947.
Mountaineers Head For Crash Scene
MILAN, Italy - Itaian [sic] Alpine troops were to begin efforts today to bring down the bodies of a score of Americans lost in a plane crash last November in the Alps south of Cuneo.
The air rescue center at Milan said it would take five or six days to get the victims down from the 9,000-foot crags where their C-47 crashed.
The rescue center said 23 persons were aboard, but U.S. Army earlier announcements had set the number at 20.
Il Corriere Della Sera, a Milan newspaper, said four bodies have been identified. These were Lt. Wesley B. Fleming of Pampa, Tex., the pilot; Sgt. Abram S. Atkins, Sperryville, Va., radio operator; Sgt. Harmon Newell, Kermit, Tex., engineer; and Marie T. Hahn, Ardsley, N.Y., a woman civilian employe of the War Deparment [sic].
Other passengers listed included: Sgt. Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Paris News (Paris, Texas) - 10 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 9)
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Five More Bodies Taken from U.S. Army Plane Wreckage
CUNEO, Italy, Aug. 16 (UP) - Five more unidentified bodies have been taken from the wreckage of a United States Army plane which crashed in the Alps on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt a year ago, it was announced today.
Ten bodies now have been recovered but only two have been identified - SGt. Abram Atkins (hometown not given) and Sgt. Harmon Newell f Kermit, Tex.
Rescue workers expected to recover two more bodies today from the fuselage of the plane which is buried in snow
(Published in The Mexia Daily News (Mexia, Texas) - 16 Aug 1948, Mon - Page 2 and in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 17 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 188))
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Alps Crash Casualty List Is Published
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - (AP) - The Air Force Friday released the casualty list of five crew members and 15 passengers who were killed when a C47 crashed in the Alps last November on a flight from Pisa, Italy, to Frankfurt, Germany.
The two-engine plane went down in snow-covered mountain terrain, and was not sighted until recently. The bodies have now been recovered. Names of the crew follow:
Second Lieutenant Wesley Bruce Fleming, Pampa, Texas, pilot; Second Lieutenant Alfred H. Martison, Williamsburg, Iowa, co-pilot; Major Frank F. Lawrence, San Francisco, Cal., navigator; Sergeant Harmon Newell, Kermit, Texas, technician; Sergeant Abram S. Atkins, radio operator, Sperryville, Va.
Passengers included Sergeant Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 21 Aug 1948, Sat - Page 2)
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Harmon, called Son by his family, died on or about 28 November 1947 in a plane crash while in the service.
Son of Oscar and Lula Newell; brother of: David, Garland, Gene, Lena, Loreta, Richard, Earl, Oscar and Jack.
He had been discharged but then had re-enlisted and was sent back overseas. He was the engineer on an Army C-47 that went down on a mountain a short distance from Italy. Due to the harsh weather it took 8 months to find and recover the plane and it's occupant's.
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1918
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1939
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Mother: Lula Newell
Spouse: Juanita Nicholson
Film Number: 001940178
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 21
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Birth Place: Vernon, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 1 Jul 1941
Registration Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Employer: The Vernon Packing Co
Height: 5 7
Weight: 144
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Lula Newell
Household Members Age Relationship
Harmon Newell 21 Self (Head)
Lula Newell Mother
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
Name: Harmon Newell
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Service Number: RA 18213516
Service Branch: Army
Unit: Air Troop Carrier TC SQ, A C R/M AB
Company: 53d NTC SQ
Enlistment Date: 26 Oct 1942
Death Date: 27 Dec 1947
Cemetery: East View Memorial Park
Cemetery Location: Vernon, Texas, USA
note: Official Army Air Forces records give death date as November 1947 but his headstone shows the date as December 1947.
MILAN, Italy - Itaian [sic] Alpine troops were to begin efforts today to bring down the bodies of a score of Americans lost in a plane crash last November in the Alps south of Cuneo.
The air rescue center at Milan said it would take five or six days to get the victims down from the 9,000-foot crags where their C-47 crashed.
The rescue center said 23 persons were aboard, but U.S. Army earlier announcements had set the number at 20.
Il Corriere Della Sera, a Milan newspaper, said four bodies have been identified. These were Lt. Wesley B. Fleming of Pampa, Tex., the pilot; Sgt. Abram S. Atkins, Sperryville, Va., radio operator; Sgt. Harmon Newell, Kermit, Tex., engineer; and Marie T. Hahn, Ardsley, N.Y., a woman civilian employe of the War Deparment [sic].
Other passengers listed included: Sgt. Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Paris News (Paris, Texas) - 10 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 9)
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Five More Bodies Taken from U.S. Army Plane Wreckage
CUNEO, Italy, Aug. 16 (UP) - Five more unidentified bodies have been taken from the wreckage of a United States Army plane which crashed in the Alps on a flight from Pisa to Frankfurt a year ago, it was announced today.
Ten bodies now have been recovered but only two have been identified - SGt. Abram Atkins (hometown not given) and Sgt. Harmon Newell f Kermit, Tex.
Rescue workers expected to recover two more bodies today from the fuselage of the plane which is buried in snow
(Published in The Mexia Daily News (Mexia, Texas) - 16 Aug 1948, Mon - Page 2 and in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 17 Aug 1948, Tue - Page 188))
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Alps Crash Casualty List Is Published
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - (AP) - The Air Force Friday released the casualty list of five crew members and 15 passengers who were killed when a C47 crashed in the Alps last November on a flight from Pisa, Italy, to Frankfurt, Germany.
The two-engine plane went down in snow-covered mountain terrain, and was not sighted until recently. The bodies have now been recovered. Names of the crew follow:
Second Lieutenant Wesley Bruce Fleming, Pampa, Texas, pilot; Second Lieutenant Alfred H. Martison, Williamsburg, Iowa, co-pilot; Major Frank F. Lawrence, San Francisco, Cal., navigator; Sergeant Harmon Newell, Kermit, Texas, technician; Sergeant Abram S. Atkins, radio operator, Sperryville, Va.
Passengers included Sergeant Doyle R. Gustin, Apache, Okla.
(Published in The Austin American (Austin, Texas) - 21 Aug 1948, Sat - Page 2)
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Harmon, called Son by his family, died on or about 28 November 1947 in a plane crash while in the service.
Son of Oscar and Lula Newell; brother of: David, Garland, Gene, Lena, Loreta, Richard, Earl, Oscar and Jack.
He had been discharged but then had re-enlisted and was sent back overseas. He was the engineer on an Army C-47 that went down on a mountain a short distance from Italy. Due to the harsh weather it took 8 months to find and recover the plane and it's occupant's.
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Oklahoma, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1918
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1939
Marriage Place: Jackson, Oklahoma, USA
Mother: Lula Newell
Spouse: Juanita Nicholson
Film Number: 001940178
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Harmon Newell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 21
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Birth Place: Vernon, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 1 Jul 1941
Registration Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Employer: The Vernon Packing Co
Height: 5 7
Weight: 144
Complexion: Light
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Lula Newell
Household Members Age Relationship
Harmon Newell 21 Self (Head)
Lula Newell Mother
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
Name: Harmon Newell
Birth Date: 13 Mar 1920
Service Number: RA 18213516
Service Branch: Army
Unit: Air Troop Carrier TC SQ, A C R/M AB
Company: 53d NTC SQ
Enlistment Date: 26 Oct 1942
Death Date: 27 Dec 1947
Cemetery: East View Memorial Park
Cemetery Location: Vernon, Texas, USA
note: Official Army Air Forces records give death date as November 1947 but his headstone shows the date as December 1947.
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