Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce was stationed at the Orlando Army Air Base when he died in an airplane crash near Hoequist Field in Western Orange County, Florida.
He was single. His parents were Howard Boyce and Ada L Shimler, of Summerside, Ohio. Informant of record was an officer at the air base.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 497
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The Orlando Sentinel 30 Apr 1942, Thu. p. 1
Seven Killed in Mid-Air Collision Over W. Orange
OAB Pursuit Ship And MacDill Bomber Tangle, Then Crash
A multi-engined bomber from MacDill Field, Tampa, and a pursuit ship from Orlando Air Base yesterday collided in mid-air about nine miles west of Orlando and killed all occupants: four second lieutenants and three privates. Colonel Thomas S. Voss, commandant, Orlando Air Base, announced.
Those listed as dead were Second Lieutenants Ernest W. Robertson, 25, Eugene, Ore., who leaves his widow, Virginia, at Tampa; Joseph S. Smith, Yoakum, Texas; and Richard R. Carnevale, Columbus, Ohio; three privates, M.C. Brown, 2136 Antoinette Avenue, Detroit, Mich.; L.A. Gerhart, Wernersville, Pa.; and E. Wimf, Holland, Mich., all aboard the bomber; and Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyce of Chillicothe, Ohio, who piloted the pursuit plane.
Colonel Voss immediately named a board of inquiry into the crash composed of Major W.E. Baker and Captains Griffin Davis and W.R. Yancey.
The bomber, following the crash, plunged into the middle of an orange grove at the United States Department of Agriculture Sub-Tropical Fruit Research Station just off the Hiawassee Road.
The pursuit plane crashed near Hoequist Field, two miles away, about six miles south of Orlando. Both planes burned.
Lieutenant Boyce was unmarried and was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the army's advance flying school at Kelly field, Texas. He was transferred to Orlando Air Base from Key Field, Meridian, Miss., on March 25.
-- Contributor: Merf (47064479)
He was single. His parents were Howard Boyce and Ada L Shimler, of Summerside, Ohio. Informant of record was an officer at the air base.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 497
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The Orlando Sentinel 30 Apr 1942, Thu. p. 1
Seven Killed in Mid-Air Collision Over W. Orange
OAB Pursuit Ship And MacDill Bomber Tangle, Then Crash
A multi-engined bomber from MacDill Field, Tampa, and a pursuit ship from Orlando Air Base yesterday collided in mid-air about nine miles west of Orlando and killed all occupants: four second lieutenants and three privates. Colonel Thomas S. Voss, commandant, Orlando Air Base, announced.
Those listed as dead were Second Lieutenants Ernest W. Robertson, 25, Eugene, Ore., who leaves his widow, Virginia, at Tampa; Joseph S. Smith, Yoakum, Texas; and Richard R. Carnevale, Columbus, Ohio; three privates, M.C. Brown, 2136 Antoinette Avenue, Detroit, Mich.; L.A. Gerhart, Wernersville, Pa.; and E. Wimf, Holland, Mich., all aboard the bomber; and Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyce of Chillicothe, Ohio, who piloted the pursuit plane.
Colonel Voss immediately named a board of inquiry into the crash composed of Major W.E. Baker and Captains Griffin Davis and W.R. Yancey.
The bomber, following the crash, plunged into the middle of an orange grove at the United States Department of Agriculture Sub-Tropical Fruit Research Station just off the Hiawassee Road.
The pursuit plane crashed near Hoequist Field, two miles away, about six miles south of Orlando. Both planes burned.
Lieutenant Boyce was unmarried and was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the army's advance flying school at Kelly field, Texas. He was transferred to Orlando Air Base from Key Field, Meridian, Miss., on March 25.
-- Contributor: Merf (47064479)
Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce was stationed at the Orlando Army Air Base when he died in an airplane crash near Hoequist Field in Western Orange County, Florida.
He was single. His parents were Howard Boyce and Ada L Shimler, of Summerside, Ohio. Informant of record was an officer at the air base.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 497
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The Orlando Sentinel 30 Apr 1942, Thu. p. 1
Seven Killed in Mid-Air Collision Over W. Orange
OAB Pursuit Ship And MacDill Bomber Tangle, Then Crash
A multi-engined bomber from MacDill Field, Tampa, and a pursuit ship from Orlando Air Base yesterday collided in mid-air about nine miles west of Orlando and killed all occupants: four second lieutenants and three privates. Colonel Thomas S. Voss, commandant, Orlando Air Base, announced.
Those listed as dead were Second Lieutenants Ernest W. Robertson, 25, Eugene, Ore., who leaves his widow, Virginia, at Tampa; Joseph S. Smith, Yoakum, Texas; and Richard R. Carnevale, Columbus, Ohio; three privates, M.C. Brown, 2136 Antoinette Avenue, Detroit, Mich.; L.A. Gerhart, Wernersville, Pa.; and E. Wimf, Holland, Mich., all aboard the bomber; and Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyce of Chillicothe, Ohio, who piloted the pursuit plane.
Colonel Voss immediately named a board of inquiry into the crash composed of Major W.E. Baker and Captains Griffin Davis and W.R. Yancey.
The bomber, following the crash, plunged into the middle of an orange grove at the United States Department of Agriculture Sub-Tropical Fruit Research Station just off the Hiawassee Road.
The pursuit plane crashed near Hoequist Field, two miles away, about six miles south of Orlando. Both planes burned.
Lieutenant Boyce was unmarried and was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the army's advance flying school at Kelly field, Texas. He was transferred to Orlando Air Base from Key Field, Meridian, Miss., on March 25.
-- Contributor: Merf (47064479)
He was single. His parents were Howard Boyce and Ada L Shimler, of Summerside, Ohio. Informant of record was an officer at the air base.
Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 497
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The Orlando Sentinel 30 Apr 1942, Thu. p. 1
Seven Killed in Mid-Air Collision Over W. Orange
OAB Pursuit Ship And MacDill Bomber Tangle, Then Crash
A multi-engined bomber from MacDill Field, Tampa, and a pursuit ship from Orlando Air Base yesterday collided in mid-air about nine miles west of Orlando and killed all occupants: four second lieutenants and three privates. Colonel Thomas S. Voss, commandant, Orlando Air Base, announced.
Those listed as dead were Second Lieutenants Ernest W. Robertson, 25, Eugene, Ore., who leaves his widow, Virginia, at Tampa; Joseph S. Smith, Yoakum, Texas; and Richard R. Carnevale, Columbus, Ohio; three privates, M.C. Brown, 2136 Antoinette Avenue, Detroit, Mich.; L.A. Gerhart, Wernersville, Pa.; and E. Wimf, Holland, Mich., all aboard the bomber; and Second Lieutenant Robert S. Boyce, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyce of Chillicothe, Ohio, who piloted the pursuit plane.
Colonel Voss immediately named a board of inquiry into the crash composed of Major W.E. Baker and Captains Griffin Davis and W.R. Yancey.
The bomber, following the crash, plunged into the middle of an orange grove at the United States Department of Agriculture Sub-Tropical Fruit Research Station just off the Hiawassee Road.
The pursuit plane crashed near Hoequist Field, two miles away, about six miles south of Orlando. Both planes burned.
Lieutenant Boyce was unmarried and was a graduate of Washington and Lee University and the army's advance flying school at Kelly field, Texas. He was transferred to Orlando Air Base from Key Field, Meridian, Miss., on March 25.
-- Contributor: Merf (47064479)
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