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Personal info

Full name
BOWMAN, Philip Arthur
Date of birth
22 January 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
Hometown
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
18108660
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Nose Turret Gunner
Unit
567th Bombardment Squadron,
389th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 May 1944
Place of death
Near Saarbrücken, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 24 71

Immediate family

Members
Arthur Bowman (father)
Margaret E. (Farmer) Bowman (mother)
Edna A. Bowman (sister)
Carmen Bowman (sister)
Paul M. Bowman (brother)
Loretta M. Bowman (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-95091
Data
Type: B-24H
Destination: Saarbrücken, Germany
Mission: Bombing of a railroad roundhouse
MACR: 5260

More information

S/Sgt Philip A. Bowman attended Central High School and graduated from Argentine High School. He was employed at the Stanolind Oil & Gas Company before he volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 20 July 1942.

S/Sgt Herbert P. Wright:
I was flying in A/C 42-100364 and saw the following. A/C 42-94951 and A/C 42-95091 were both hit by flak at approximately the same time. A/C 42-95091 had a fire in the bomb bay and went into a spin and then a steep dive. Saw A/C 42-94951 hit and start to go down. At about that time our plane was hit by flak and I lost track of the two planes that were in trouble. When we straightened out again I saw four chutes but could not positively identify which plane they had emerged from.

Bowman and Dorsett had no difficulty in bailing out near the target.

No one on the crew seemed to know what became of him.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Deborah Albers Family Tree, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.findagrave.com – John Dowdy / Don J, www.newspapers.com – The Tulsa Tribune - 12 July 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Damaris Acevedo / Patricia Nauseda