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Roamy E. Dandridge attended college and worked in the petroleum industry.

He joined the Regular Army on 5 December 1939 and sent to England on October 1943.

M/Sgt Dandridge was a passenger on a C-47 with serialnumber 43-48611 with destination RAF Biggin Hill. The airplane took off from airfield A-54C Paris-Le-Bourget at 0935 with a load of passengers and crashed approximately seven minutes later for unknown reasons. The crash was fatal to eighteen of the twenty-two occupants of the plane. The other four people were all seriously injured.

The crew and passengers were initially buried at Solers Cemetery at Melun, France.

The casualties are remembered with a memorial maker in the Cemetery Le Plessis-Gassot, France. The marker reads: "Aux officiers et soldats américains tués le 18 janvier 1945 dans un accident d'avion" ("To the American officers and soldiers killed on 18 January 1945 in a plane crash")