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Fallen Heroes: Flight Sergeant Paul F. Brawley

Vickers Wellingtons of 9 Squadron flying in formation. RAF photographer - This photograph CH 5 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.

Born in Newcomerstown, Ohio, Paul Franklin Brawley rose from orphaned youth to wartime aviator. Paul Franklin Brawley (1914-1942) was born in Newcomerstown, Ohio, the only child of Edward Brawley (1860-1922) and Lydia Miller (1876-1928). His parents married, three years before Paul’s birth, in Stark County, Ohio. It was Edward’s second marriage after the death ofContinue reading “Fallen Heroes: Flight Sergeant Paul F. Brawley”