Boyd Pierce Dobbs was born in 1907 in Texas. He was the son of George S. Dobbs and Stella Ellis Garner. He resided in Alameda County, California prior to the war and enlisted in the Army on March 7, 1942, at the Presidio of Monterey, California. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed in laundering and also as Single, without dependents.

Boyd served in the 509th Bomber Squadron, 351st Bomber Group, Heavy, as a Sergeant and was a passenger aboard the B-17G #44-8639 at the time of his death. He was Killed in Action on June 8, 1945, when his airplane clipped the high ground on a ridgeside, then skidded along the mountainside of Craig Cwm Llwyd near Barmouth, Wales, and burst into flames. His B-17 was returning to the United States following the conclusion of hostilities in Europe. They were flying from Polebrook in Northamptonshire to the RAF Valley Airfield on Anglesey before the final leg back to the United States. All men aboard his plane were killed as a result of the crash.

Sgt Dobbs is now buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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