ALLEN, Malcolm - WWII - KIA
Source: Unknown newspaper
Tech Sgt Malcolm W. Allen, 24, former vocational and agricultural teacher 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 Mrs. Marion Allen of Newport from Lt. Col. Chester C. 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 mission. Sgt. Allen, who was born Jan 1, 1920, graduated from Newport HS in 1937 and 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 Third Foreign Transport Group. Surviving Sgt Allen, a Third 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 motorcycle crash near Newport. – thanks to BD
Tech Sgt Malcolm W. Allen, 24, former vocational and agricultural teacher 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 Mrs. Marion Allen of Newport from Lt. Col. Chester C. 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 mission. Sgt. Allen, who was born Jan 1, 1920, graduated from Newport HS in 1937 and 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 Third Foreign Transport Group. Surviving Sgt Allen, a Third 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 motorcycle crash near Newport. – thanks to BD
Source: Kingman Star Thursday, November 23, 1944
Tech. Sgt. Malcolm W. Allen, aged 24, a former vocational and agricultural teacher in the high school at Kingman, was killed in an airplane crash Nov. 11 in the Central Pacific war area. He had previously been reported missing on an official mission. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Allen of Newport received the death message Nov. 15 from Lt. Col. Chester C. Moonaw, commanding officer of Hamilton Field, San Francisco, Calif., where Sgt. Allen, navigator with the U. S. Army ferrying service, was based. Sergeant Allen, who was born Jan. 1, 1920, graduated from Newport High School in 1937 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 Air Force Base Unit of the Third Foreign Transport Group. Besides the parents, Sgt. Allen is survived by a brother, Maynard of Dana. Another brother, Mahlon, was killed in a motorcycle crash near Newport in March 1942. – thanks so very much to “S” for all her great obit work for this site
Source: Daily Clintonian Wed Nov 22, 1944 p 1
Word was received Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Allen of Newport of the death of their son, Technical Sergeant, Malcolm Allen, 24 who was killed somewhere in the Central Pacific Area as the result of a plane crash on Nov 11. Previous to the telegram from the War Department, Mr. and Mrs. Allen received two messages from their son's commanding officer. The first telegram stated that he was Missing on an official mission and the last one that death had occurred as a result of an accident on Nov 11 in the central Pacific area. The War Department telegram verified the Commander's message.
Born in Newport on Jan 1, 1920, Sgt. Allen attended Newport HS and graduated with the class of 1937. Entering Purdue upon his completion of high school, he graduated from the University in 1941. Before going into the service he was vocational agriculture teacher at Kingman, Ind during the first term of the school year. At midterm, he left to enlist in the US Army Ferrying Service. On June 29, 1942, Sgt. Allen graduated from Scott Field, Mo as a radio operator mechanic and later qualified as a navigator in the US Army Ferrying Command at a base in Long Beach, Calif. Recently he was stationed at Hamilton Field near San Francisco Calif where he was a member of the 359th Army AAFBU, Third Foreign Transport Group. Cause of the plane crash in which their son was killed is not known by Mr. and Mrs. Allen but it is believed that Malcolm was on his way back to the states after ferrying a plane somewhere in the Pacific when the accident occurred.
Sgt. Allen was a third degree Mason of the Newport Lodge, taking his Masonic work when he was home on furlough this last summer. - kbz
