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Birth	:	10 Sep 1919
Death	:	20 Apr 1944
Burial	:	Bethesda United Methodist Church Cemetery, Browningsville, Montgomery County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.3137400, -77.2474500
Inscription	:	[symbol: pilot's wings] WATKINS F/O Dallas D. Watkins Sept. 10, 1919 Apr. 20, 1944 Killed In Action WORLD WAR II
Description	:	The News, Frederick, MD, September 3, 1942 SERGEANT DALLAS WATKINS, son of V. T. Watkins, Monrovia, has completed primary pilot training at Ryan School of Aeronautics, Hemet, California, and will be transferred in the near future to a basic training school where he expects to become a flight officer and receive his wings in January. Sergeant Watkins enlisted in the Air Corps in January, 1940, going immediately to Hickham Field, Hawaii, where he was stationed on December 7, but was not wounded in the attack. The News, Frederick, MD, May 1, 1944 Missing in the North African theater of war since April... Read More	The News, Frederick, MD, September 3, 1942 SERGEANT DALLAS WATKINS, son of V. T. Watkins, Monrovia, has completed primary pilot training at Ryan School of Aeronautics, Hemet, California, and will be transferred in the near future to a basic training school where he expects to become a flight officer and receive his wings in January. Sergeant Watkins enlisted in the Air Corps in January, 1940, going immediately to Hickham Field, Hawaii, where he was stationed on December 7, but was not wounded in the attack. The News, Frederick, MD, May 1, 1944 Missing in the North African theater of war since April 20, Flight Officer Dallas D. Watkins, formerly of Monrovia, was last heard from when he was here in the States the latter part of March. A telegram from the War Department received Sunday morning informed his sister, Mrs. George D. Blumenauer, 246 East Fifth Street, that he is missing. Another sister, Mrs. Edward Schade, also resides in Frederick on North Market street. By coincidence, word that both Flight Officer Watkins and a friend of his, Tech. Sgt. Charles W. Andrews, of Monrovia, were missing on the same day and in the same theater of action, arrived here on the same day. Officer Watkins is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Watkins, of Monrovia, and was at Pearl Harbor during the Jap attack there. He enlisted in the Air Corps in January, 1940, and was graduated from the Roswell Army Flying School, Roswell, N. M., receiving the wings of a pilot and the rating of flight officer, equivalent to that of second lieutenant. He was graduated from Frederick High School. The News, Frederick, MD, May 19, 1944 Flight Officer Dallas D. Watkins, 24, who was reported missing, is now reported as dead. A telegram officially declaring him dead was received yesterday by Mrs. George D. Blumenauer, 246 West Fifth street, sister of Officer Watkins. Mrs. Blumenauer was notified that he was aboard a transport which was sunk in the Mediterranean. The War Department death notification indicated that a letter would follow, giving any further information which has been secured. Officer Watkins was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Vernon T. Watkins, of Monrovia, and was graduated from Frederick High School. He enlisted in the Air Corps in 1940 and was at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack there. He was last in this county in March and no word was received from him after that time. He is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Blumenauer, Mrs. Edward Schade, also of this city; Mrs. Morton Behrend and Mrs. Alice Umberger, both of Silver Spring; one brother, Ray Watkins, who is in the Army and stationed in Oklahoma.

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Dallas Day Watkins's memorial is located at: Bethesda United Methodist Church Cemetery, Browningsville, Montgomery County, USA.
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Latitude: 39.3137400
Longitude: -77.2474500

Family Members:

Parent

Vernon T Watkins

(1871 - 1943)

Edith Pearl Mount Watkins

(1878 - 1941)

Siblings

Mazie Noreen Watkins Day

(1899 - 1919)

William Thomas Watkins Sr.

(1900 - 1943)

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