Sergeant THEODORE TRAVIS POWELL KIA

Sergeant THEODORE TRAVIS POWELL KIA, US Army Air Forces. Brother of Fireman Second Class RICHARD KING POWELL, JR., and Tec/ Sergeant KENNETH JACKSON POWELL. Husband of Mrs. Evelyn Skinner Powell, and father of Nancy Lou Powell, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard King Powell. He is a graduate of Tioga High School and Alexandria Business College, and was employed by S. H. Kress and Company, Alexandria Louisiana, prior to entering the Army June 21, 1940. He served at Camp Blanding, Florida, and went to Medical Service School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, transferring to the Air Forces at Randolph Field. Sergeant Powell served at Santa Ana Army Air Base, California, Second Army Air Field Flight Training Depot at Ontario, California, 64th Base Headquarters at Minter Field, California, 804th Technical Group, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and 620th Technical Schools Squådron, Truax Field, Wisconsin He served with bombardment groups at Salina, Kansas, and Clovis, New Mexico, where he transferred to the Military Training Section as instructor in aerial radio, B-29 aircraft. He was killed in a crash October 15, 1944, while with the 231st Army Air Field Base Unit at Alamagordo, New Mexico, and has a Citation of Honor from General H. H. Arnold. 

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946