Name:
Thomas Austin, Jr. Withers
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Serial Number:
R/79045
Unit:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1942-07-27
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
Britischer Kriegsfriedhof Kiel, Kiel, Stadtkreis Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Plot:
USA. 3.
Row:
H
Grave:
17
Decoration:
Comments:
Thomas Austin Withers, Jr. was born on January 5, 1915, in Nelson County, Virginia. He was the son of Thomas Austin Withers Sr and Margaret Scruggs Withers.
Thomas served in the 405 Squadron as a Flight Sergeant during World War II. After training in Canada, he was sent to England where he was a tail gunner on a Wellington bomber. On one of the bombing runs over Germany, he was wounded and hospitalized. Upon return to duty, his bombing runs continued until July 27, 1942, when his plane, Halifax W1230, was downed over Germany and crashed into the Elbe River. Withers and two other crewmen were killed.
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