Name:
William Max “Billy” Burrows
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
Unit:
16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group
Date of Death:
1948-11-03
State:
Oklahoma
Cemetery:
Fayetteville National Cemetery, Arkansas
Plot:
Section 18
Row:
Grave:
Site 62
Decoration:
Comments:
William Max “Billy” Burrows was born on September 22, 1926, in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. He was the son of Rufus Belie Burrows and Vallie Rae Bayles Harrison. He was a camera crew aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.
PFC Burrows is now buried in the Fayetteville National Cemetery, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA.
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