Carlton P. Tierney
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Branch: U.S. Army Air Force
Serial: O-860471
Entered the service from: New Jersey
Died:
Introduction
Second Lieutenant Carlton Paul Tierney was born in Wisconsin on May 23, 1916, the second son of Patrick Tierney and his wife, the former Ora Bedell. At the time of the 1930 census, the Tierney family, which included older brother John, lived in Sherwood Village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Patrick Tierney was then employed as an insurance agent.
Carlton Tierney had completed four years of college and was working as a civil engineer when he enlisted in the Army on October 21, 1942 at Chanute Field, Illinois. Carlton Tierney had been living in Haddonfield NJ prior to his induction, and was single when he went to war. After joining the Army, Carlton Tierney qualified for flight duty, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He was killed during a training mission when the bomber he was in crashed on November 16, 1943, approximately 12 miles southeast of Walker Army Airfield, near Victoria, Kansas. Four other members of the crew were reported killed in the crash. Lieutenant Tierney was not the pilot.
He is memorialized on the Haddonfield NJ World War II War Memorial.
Bomber Missing With 14 Aboard
Ironwood Daily Globe —
Bomber Missing With 14 Aboard
Five Men Killed in Crash of Bomber in Kansas Yesterday.
West Palm Beach, Fla.—(P)—A four-engined army bomber which took off from Morrison Field October 29 with 14 persons aboard is missing at sea and search for it had been abandoned, the field’s public relations office announced yesterday. Ten of those aboard were crewmen and four were passengers. The crewmen include Second Lieut. Walter A. Kozlowski, Kenosha, Wis.
Five Killed in Kansas
Victoria, Kas.—(P)—Five airmen were killed in the crash of an army bomber about 12 miles southeast of Walker air base yesterday. Other crewmen aboard—the public relations office would not say how many—were uninjured. The army office declined to disclose the size of the plane or circumstances of the crash. The dead included Second Lt. Carlton P. Tierney, Milwaukee, Wis.