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Personal info

Full name
WATTERS, Dawson Everitt
Date of birth
29 October 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Kentucky

Military service

Service number
O-810270
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
863rd Bombardment Squadron,
493rd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 September 1944
Place of death
Near Oschersleben, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 15 13

Immediate family

Members
Ralph L. Watters (father)
Adaline A. (Dawson) Watters (mother)
Ruth M. Watters (sister)
George F. Watters (brother)
Noel E. Watters (brother)
Alice I. Watters (sister)
Bertha F. (Fenton) Watters (wife)
Dawson Watters (son)

Plane data

Serial number
43-38295
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Magdeburg, Germany
MACR: 8867

More information

1st Lt Dawson E. Watters graduated from Louisville High School in 1938.

E/A caused fire on no.3 engine and top of the fuselage on what believed to be A/C 295. Pilot slipped to the right and under the formation. One or two crewmen are believed to have jumped. No chutes were seen to have opened as A/C 164 passed over stricken aircraft and no further observations could be done. Lt. Durgin believes the crew were making delayed jumps. It is believed That Dawson bailed out of the side window of the Co-Pilot's seat. He may have gotten injured or killed when he left the plane. Fire was on that side of the plane where he balied out.

He was first buried at the cemetery of Oschersleben, Germany.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com

Photo source: www.ancestry.com, Peter Schouteten, Louisville High School 1938