Name:
Fred Hazen Lowery
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
18163220
Unit:
850th Bomber Squadron, 801st Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-19
State:
Oklahoma
Cemetery:
Brittany American Cemetery, St. James, France
Plot:
B
Row:
14
Grave:
7
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
SSgt Fred H. Lowery, mechanic of the B-24 Liberator 42-51124, took off from Harrington, UK at 2306 on a weapons drop for the Columneaux cell of the Resistance. Some say the plane clipped a tree and others maintain it collided with an RAF plane but the result is the same: the plane crashed at 0030, leaving no survivors. Lowery was initially buried in the Ferrières-en-Gâtinais cemetery before being transferred to Brittany American Cemetery in St. James, France.