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Two Killed, OneMissing in ActionVt! nibif; i iitsITwo El F’asoans have been re-esported killed m action and one K1 I Pasoan is reported missing in action, j |Lieut. Hal Wayne Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hal K, Townsend j |of 2119 North Stanton street, was!! reported killed m action in theJTownsendSouth Pacific in;a message from a! friend who was 'commander of hisflight and leaderii of the fatal mis*!sion.No official no-jt ice has been re-tceived from the ! War Department.j The 22-year-old[aviator, first pi-! lot of a B-25| bomber, had been in the South Pa-jcific eight months. He graduated, from El Paso High SchooI and was |I attending Texas A. and M. College,' when war was declared and he en- jj listed in the Air Corps, j He wa^ a basic flight instructor; ; at Major Field in Greenville, Texas, j and Strother Field in Winfield,, Texas, before, volunteering to gooverseas.Capt. W. W Short Jr. wrote thej news to his sister, Miss Harriet ■Short of 1012 North Oregon street.! The rantain said: “He was one (A | ihe best of the bo» anu h*boys and pilots in rny command and losing him was a severe blow to the squadron and myself 1 was personally leading the mission on which he met his death, making me feel doubly bad about it, I should hoe very much to have a personal talk with his narents when I return to the states. '
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 31, 1945
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