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Submitted: 12/9/23 • Approved: 12/9/23 • Last Updated: 12/12/23 • R1510840-G0-S3
William Horace
Arkansas
FIRST SERGEANT 501 Air Force Air Base Group
World War II
January 19, 1923 - March 22, 1951
Husband of Nila Jean Eddleman Shelton
Assigned to the 301 AF Air Base Group during World War II
Sgt. Shelton died heroically while serving as a firefighter at Barksdale Air Force Base, assisting in recovery operations following the crash of a B-45 Tornado bomber in which three airmen were killed [John Andrew Prime]
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 12/9/23 by Billsully060
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