Woodrow Owens was born on 26 July 1914 in Jamestown, Fentress County, Tennessee. He was the son of William Harrison Owens and Orlena Florence Howard.
He Died non Battle 23 May 1945, Fentress County, Tennessee
Private First Class
654th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company A
PFC Owens is buried at Taylor Place Cemetery at Jamestown, Fentress County, Tennessee.
The date is May 23, 1945, just 15 days after Germany surrenders in World War II. An Army Air Corps C-46D”Commando” aircraft #44-77507, with a crew of four and carrying 40 wounded American soldiers and repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris area — and, then, finally home — plunges from the skies just outside the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris, with one of its two engines on fire. All on board are killed, including the wounded on their way to recovery and home.
Crew:
1st Lt Rex Loyal Pond
1st Lt Claude H. Weid
Sgt Edward Victor Vermillion Jr.
Sgt Edward Hill.
- Rank: Private First Class
- Date of birth: 26 July 1914
- Date of death: 23 May 1945
- County: Fentress
- Hometown: Jamestown
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company A
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Taylor Place Cemetery, Jamestown, Fentress County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar IX, Top Panel
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