Capt Crowell was the Pilot of the B-25 #42-64655, 12th AF 57th Bomb Wing, 321st BG, 448th BS in the Mediterranean Theatre.

Crowell, Weymouth (NMI), Jr., Captain, Pilot, Enlistment Service # : 19077133 Officer's Service # : O-740756 KILLED IN ACTION on 17 April 1944~Capt Crowell was the Flight Leader on a Bombing Mission on the RR bridge 2 miles S of Attigliano. Captain Crowell's plane was hit in the Navigator’s compartment by flak and was soon going down under control over the target. The tail of Captain Crowell’s ship was shot off (#655). Two to five chutes were reported to have opened by the rest of the formation, the plane crashed just N of town. In spite of very turbulent air and the flight leader being shot down just before the target bombs were observed hitting both NE and SE approaches with several direct hits reported on the bridge itself. Some bombs fell short and over. Flak: Heavy, intense and accurate, starting at IP and going to target. Weather: Hazy. F/L: Capt. Crowell. A/C No. 42-64655 (MACR-4193 - shot down) P: Crowell, Weymouth (NMI), Jr., Capt - KIA CP: Elliott, Floyd A., 2Lt - POW, liberated and RTD N: Hough, William S., 2Lt - MIA, evaded enemy and RTD 10 Jun 44 B: Kreutz, Alfred W., 2Lt - KIA E: Johnson, Joseph M., S/Sgt - KIA ***** * https://www.fold3.com/page/638704565-joe-m-johnson **** **R: Doss, Charles W., Jr., S/Sgt - KIA G: Graham, Herbert J., S/Sgt - KIA F: None Excerpt from Casualty Questionnaire: Hough, William S., 2Lt, navigator, 448th BS Capt. Crowell had leveled the airplane off on the bomb run and Lt. Kreutz was adjusting his sight on the target. The plane was hit by two direct A.A. on the tail assembly, and lost the complete unit. Then the plane climbed out of control and fell off on its back. Capt. Crowell succeeded in getting the ship off its back and out of a spin with the use of ailerons and engines alone. At his command I bailed out through the front hatch, and as I left hew was still attempting to hold the aircraft under control in order to give the rest of the crew a chance to jump. The bombardier, Lt. Kreutz had the presence of mind to close the bombay doors before trying to climb up the narrow, slippery crawlway that leads from the nose to the pilot’s cockpit. As I passed underneath the ship I had a clear view of the damage; the entire rear from the bombay aft was riddled and the entire tail assembly was gone. It is my belief that the gunners were either killed or too badly injured to try to jump. After my chute opened, I watched one other chute open up and then the ship crashed by the outskirts of a small Italian town. I landed in an orchard about two miles from the crash, and it was around five minutes after I had landed that the ship blew up. I succeeded in getting rid of my chute and making my way to a hiding place in a drainage ditch some distance from where I had hit the ground. Somehow, although I heard several patrols and actually saw four Fascist soldiers, I was not discovered. I was unable to contact the other member of my crew and I thought it best to start out of the vicinity by the escape route upon which we had been briefed. The rest was my personal troubles and did not include the rest of the crew.

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W. S. Hough 1st Lt. A.C. (Res. Inactive) 0-701371

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 NAME CROWELL#WEYMOUTH#JR##### CROWELL#WEYMOUTH#JR##### ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 19077133 19077133 RESIDENCE: STATE 95 OREGON RESIDENCE: COUNTY 071 YAMHILL PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 9580 PORTLAND OREGON DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 12 12 DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 03 03 DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 42 42 GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PVT# Private GRADE: CODE 8 Private BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION AC# Air Corps BRANCH: CODE 20 Air Corps FIELD USE AS DESIRED # # TERM OF ENLISTMENT 5 Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law LONGEVITY ### ### SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 0 Civil Life NATIVITY 91 CALIFORNIA YEAR OF BIRTH 18 18 RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 1 White, citizen EDUCATION 6 2 years of college CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 307 Animal and livestock farmers MARITAL STATUS 2 Married Height: 70 Weight: 195 COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 6 Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of the United States under Army Regulations 605-10 CARD NUMBER # # BOX NUMBER 0306 0306

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U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945 Name: Weymouth Crowell Jr Gender: Male Race: White religion: Protestant Cemetery Name: Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California Disposition: Administrative Decision Service Branch: Army Rank: Captain

Service Number: 740756

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 Name: Weymouth Jr Crowell Service Info.: CAPTAIN US ARMY AIR CORPS WORLD WAR II Death Date: 17 Apr 1944 Cemetery: Golden Gate National Cemetery Cemetery Address: 1300 Sneath Lane San Bruno, CA 94066

Buried At: Section F Site 51

National WWII Memorial, Washington, D.C. Registry~NARA~War Department Files Honoree Hometown Service Source Weymouth Crowell, Jr. Kent County, MI U.S. Army National Archives CAPT Weymouth Crowell, Jr. ID: 0-740756 Branch of Service: U.S. Army Hometown: Kent County, MI

Status: KIA

California Birth Index, 1905-1995 Name: Weymouth Crowell Birth Date: 6 Nov 1918 Gender: Male Mother's Maiden Name: Ryder

Birth County: Los Angeles

1920 Census/Los Angeles Assembly District 75/Los Angeles Co./California/Roll 115/Enumeration District: 460/Page: 8A Household Members: Name Age Weyman R Crowell/Head of Household/55 Ethel M Crowell /Wife/45 Harold R Crowell Son/27 Willard W Crowell /Son/23 Andrew E Crowell/Son/19 Rachel E Crowell/Daughter/14 Katherine M Crowell/Daughter/10

Weymouth Crowell/Son/1yr-2mo

1930 Census/Los Angeles/Los Angeles Co./California/Roll 149/Enumeration District: 438/Page: 2A Household Members: Name Age Weymouth Crowell/Head of Household/55 Ethel May Crowell /Wife/55 Katherine M Crowell/Daughter/20 Weymouth Crowell/Son/11 ======================== NOTE: This Bell Tower (below) was named for CAPTAIN CROWELL'S FATHER **http://www.thesilverlakenews.com/history/

First Baptist Church- Allison & Allison, Architects 1927 Founded in 1884, the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles moved to its present location (the original church was located at 6th and Broadway) in 1927. The church is ornate by Baptist standards: the church's rose windows are adapted from the Chartres Cathedral; the coffered, gold-leaf ceiling is modeled after the chapel in the Ducal Palace in Montava, Italy. The 130-room edifice is dominated by the 155-foot Crowell Bell Tower, named after Weymouth Crowell, an imporant patron of the church.

Many important Angelinos have played a part in the history of the church. Landowner Isaac Lankershim** was a trustee of the original congregation as well as his son-in-law. hotel owner and developer Isaac Newton **Van Nuys**.

The First Baptist Church of Los Angeles is located at 760 Westmoreland Avenue. It was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 237) in 1981. Website:www.fbcofla.org

Barbi Ennis Connolly, 321stBG Historian, 2009, PRINCESSBARBI_B25@msn.com Corrections or additions ?

321st Bomb Group Histories have been made available through the dedicated efforts of the 321st BG History Team; John Fitzgerald (446th BS Jack Fitzgerald) Barbara Ennis Connolly, Historian (447th BS Edward C Ennis) and Patti Johnson (446th BS James Raymond Orechia/KIA)

John Fitzgerald does magic with computer skills and types like the wind… Barbi Ennis Connolly, 321st BG Historian speaks with the Vets and families and gathers the photo’s and info… Patti Johnson is our “needle in the haystack gal”… genealogy, ancestry and etc.