Mahlon Edmund Snover was born on 14 March 1914 in Indiana.
1 He died on 4 March 1943, at age 28, in Missing in Action.
2 He was buried in Hinkle Creek Cemetery (Section 6, Lot B15), Noblesville, Hamilton, Indiana.
3 U.S. Air Corps 01 Oct 1941.
4 Missing in Action more than a year after having been shot down, Technical Sergeant Mahlon E. Snover had been declared officially dead by the War Department.
His mother, Mrs. Martha A. Snover, 2908 Meredith Street, received the news in a letter from Gen. J. A. Ulio, adjutant general. She also has been informed in a letter from Robert P. Patterson, under-secretary of war, that her son has been awarded posthumously the order of the purple heart. Sergt. Snover, gunner, radio operator and photographer in a Flying Fortress using English bases, had written his mother last March 3, 1943. His plane was shot down the folllowing day off Texel Island, Holland.
See members Bail Out.
The body of the plane's bombardier was reported to have been recovered from the water. Crews of other ships reported seeing the plane angling downward and several crew memebers bail out.
Sergt. Snover was his mother's only son. He is survived, however, by a sister, Mrs. Mary Elma Campbell of Superior, Mont.
He was 29 years old at the time of his death. He was graduated from Spencer High School and entered the army while he was studying commercial art in Los Angeles, Cal. He received training in MacArthur, Cal., and in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and was stationed at Wendover field, Utah.
His unit of 19 planes roared over Spencer en route to the East coast and overseas stations. He arrived in England in October of 1943. He had been awarded the air medal with one oak leaf cluster.
U.S. World War ll Army Enlistment Records show enlistment state as California.
Mahlon served as a Technical Sergeant & Radio Operator on B-17F (#42-5129), 368th Bomber Squadron, 306th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in Owen County, Indiana prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 1, 1941, prior to the war, at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Salesperson and also as Single, without dependents.
Mahlon was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-17 was shot down by German aircraft and crashed in the North Sea during the war. The entire 9 man crew was killed in this crash. He was awarded the Air Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart.
Service # 39164266.