WWII-KIA-ALLEN, Malcolm W. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Tech. Sgt. Malcolm W. Allen, 24, former vocational and agricultural teach er at Kingman HS was killed in an airplane crash Nov 11 in the Central Pacific area.  The death message came Wednesday to his parents,

Mr. and Mr s. Marion Allen of Newport from Lt. Col. Chester CF. Moonaw, commanding officer of Hamilton Field, San Francisco, Calif where Sgt. Allen, navigator with the US Army Ferrying Service was based. The

parents had received a previous telegram saying their son was missing on an official missio n.  Sgt Allen, who was born Jan 1, 1920, graduated from Newport HS in 19 37 and in 1941 from Purdue University where he had majored in agriculture. For the semester, following his college graduation he taught in the Kingman school and then resigned to enlist in the Ferrying Service. He graduated as a radio operator mechanic June

29, 1942 at Scott Field, Ill and then was transferred to Long Beach, Calif where he qualified as a navigator in the summer of 1944.  He recently was sent to Hamilton Field where he was stationed with the 359th Army AF base unit of the 3rd Foreign Transport Group.l Surviving Sgt Allen, a 3rd Degree Mason with the Masonic Lodge at Newport, in addition to his parents is a brother, Maynard of Dana. Another brother, Mahlon was killed in March 1942 in a motorycle crash near Newport. - kbz