Homer P. Davis was born on February 20, 1920 in Missouri. He served in the 25th Field Artillery Regiment as a Technician 4th Grade during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. T4 Davis died at the age of 25 and is now buried in the Bass Chapel Cemetery, Strafford, Greene County, Missouri, USA.