Jefferson County KS Archives Obituaries.....WHITE, William J. "Bill"  October 16, 1941
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The Perry Mirror
Jefferson County
Thursday
October 16, 1941

William White Killed In Airplane Accident
J.B. WHITE of Topeka received word from England last week that his son, William
J. "Bill" WHITE, an officer in the American Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air
Force, had been killed in an aircraft accident on October 8. News of the
accident was received by cablegram from the British Air Ministry. No details of
the accident were given.
White, just 21, has been in England since the first of July and was just
recently assigned to the American Eagle Squadron. He is a graduate of Tpoeka
Catholic high school and had spent three years at Washburn college before
leaving school to take up aviation. He attempted to join the United State Naval
and Marine Air Corps but was rejected by both because of a small growth within
his nose. He then went to Tulsa, Okla, where he was given training sponsored by
the Canadian government. Following his training in Tulsa to was transferred to
Ottawa, Canada, and then to England.
The White family were former residents of the Thompsonville community, having
lived there many years before moving to Topeka. 


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