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Powell, Allan Campbell
| Last Name: | Powell |
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| First Name: | Allan Campbell |
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22.2.1920 - 5.1.1944 (Life/Active Dates)
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| Biography/History: | Allan (“Cam”) Campbell Powell was the second child of Helen Campbell Powell (1892-1964) and William W. Powell (1888-1972). He was born on 22 Feb 1920 while the family was living with Helen’s mother, Grace Campbell, at 2316 W First Avenue in Spokane. After Grace died in 1924 and her house became a museum, the family moved to 221 W Sumner in Spokane. Allan was confirmed in the Episcopal church in 1932. By age 14, he began attending the Middlesex School in Concord, MA with his older brother William (“Bee”) Jr. After graduation from Middlesex, Allen enrolled for three years at Princeton University, then transferred to the University of Washington for his final year of college; However, he left to enlist in the Army Air Corps in March 1942, began training as a pilot in Santa Ana, CA and won his wings a year later at Roswell field, NM. He took advanced training at Rapid City, SD, Boise, ID and Ephrata, WA, before completing the course and getting his crew at Spokane’s Geiger Field in September 1943. Immediately ordered overseas to England with the 410th squadron, 94th bomb group. He made his first test raid in late November. On January 5, 1944 returning from Bordeaux, France, on his 9th mission, 1st Lieutenant Allan C. Powell’s B-17 bomber crashed near the coast of western France. He was listed as missing for a year before the Army declared his death. His headstone rests in the Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, Draguignan, Dept. du Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France. As a memorial to Allan, in October 1945 his mother donated more than six First Avenue real estate lots, adjacent to her childhood home, to the Eastern Washington Historical Society for future expansion. Allan is also memorialized on a Lewis & Clark High School plaque of students who died during WWII. Allan’s siblings: William (“Bee”) Weaver Powell, Jr. (1918-1982) and John White Powell (1925-2012). |
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3212.1 (Photograph, Allan Campbell Powell Portrait, ca.1935)
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