Name:
Woodrow W. Owens
Rank:
Private First Class
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Unit:
654th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Date of Death:
1945-05-23
State:
Tennessee
Cemetery:
Taylor Place Cemetery, Jamestown, Tennessee
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Woodrow W. Owens was born in 1914. He served in the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion as a Private First Class during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC Owens is now buried in the Taylor Place Cemetery, Jamestown, Fentress County, Tennessee, USA.