Withers Thomas Austin, Jr.

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Thomas Austin, Jr. Withers is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Thomas Austin Withers

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:

Grave:

Decoration:

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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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