1st Lt. Frank P. Dwyer, ASN #O-1551389, MIA from the CBI.
Lt. Dwyer was an ordnance officer for the eastern sector of the India-China Wing, Air Transport Command, and was lost on a flight that took off at 1:30am on June 14, 1944, for a flight from Chabua to Calcutta, India. Lt. Dwyer was one of 11 passengers (including one British RAF officer), and four crew on flight of a C-47 (AAF Serial No. 7793).
Lt. Dwyer's family was informed that he was missing within a week of the loss of the aircraft. But by December 1944, all men on the flight had been declared dead, as no remains were ever found. A funeral mass was performed at the St. Ambrose church in his hometown of Ironwood, Michigan, on December 15, 1944.
Frank P. Dwyer is remembered at the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery.
Frank Dwyer was born in Ironwood on July 28, 1918 and graduated from Luther L. Wright high school in 1935. He took active part in home talent and radio plays and was a member of the Parish Players. He was an officer in the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending the Ironwood high school.
Frank Dwyer enlisted in the Army in October, 1940, originally in the Medical Administrative Corps, assigned to "Enlistment for Hawaiian Department"--that portion of the Army assigned to the defense of the Hawaiian Islands. He was at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. He had been overseas twice. He had taken leave at home in August, 1942. From there he went to the Aberdeen, Maryland, proving grounds where he was commissioned a second lieutenant. Then around July or August, 1943, he went to India, where he was commissioned as first lieutenant, and where he was for 10 months up to his loss.
Years later, Frank Dwyer was still fondly remembered by his brother-in-law, Mr. Jack E. Rush.