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Gunner On Yank Bomber Lost Over Coast OfHollandTechnical 8 (ft. Oscar V. Kill-son. 23. son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Kllison. Jamestown. has horn missing in action sinco February 22 over the coast of Holland, according to word received last week hv his parents from the warder»’’tnn-n*Set. Kllison resided in Bowers-ville with his parents and was employed at Patterson Field when inducted in the army and assigned to the air force. The Bllison family moved from Bowersville to Jamestown recently,A former employe of the New Fra drain Co . Bowersville, he received his basic training in Florida and graduated fr«*m an airplane mechanics’ school at KeeslerField. Biloxi. Miss., in April. ISIS.He later attended an airplane factory school at Geiger Field, t’allf.. and an aerial gunnery school at Kpharada, Wash. He served as a gunner on a Liberator, largest bombers in active use by the airforces.The last letter rereiv Kllisons from their son was dat ed February IT and said he had taken several “buggy rides, I!-* had been in Kngland since lastNovember and only recently had been advanced from a staff sergeant to technical sergeant.Sgt. Kllison is the only son of Mr. and Mrs Willson, who have three daughters. They are Misses Virginia and Nola. at home, and Mrs Kenneth W Jerflr.ins. who is with her husband. Technician, fifth (“lass. Kenneth Jenkins, at ,Fort TMx. N. J.
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 13, 1944
Page 8
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