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Sgt Rowe was a graduate of Louisville Male High School and joined the Army on 9 September 1940 at Fort Knox. He was a cadet lieutenant in the R.O.T.C. program at Santa Ana, California. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor he was in Hawaii and after returning to the Unites States, he later was sent to the European theater.

The airplane was hit by flak. Six crew members were taken prisoner, three were killed.

A German report stated:
On 18 July 1944, at about 2100, the body of the American flyer Albert O. Rowe, ASN 6665265 T43-4 O/P, was found in an oatfield near Knautkleeberg, district Leipzig. Rowe, whose body was in an advanced state of decomposition, probably bailed out after the air raid of 7 July 44 performed against this district and met his death, because his parachute did not open. The parachute was found unopened close to the body."

T/Sgt Rowe was initially buried at the East Cemetery in Leipzig-Pegau on 22 July 1944. He was disinterred by an American Search and Recovery Team on 29 June 1945 and evacuated to Margraten.

Sgt Rowe is remembered at the Mason Cemetery in rockport, Ohio County, Kentucky.