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Show Navigator Is Missing On European Front Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Frazier re-j re-j ceived word Monday from Oakley ' that a nephew, First Lieutenant I Leo O. Frazier, had been reported missing in action since March 8 in European operations of the United States Army Air Forces. Lieutenant Frazier, 25, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Frazier of Oakley and grandson of Mrs. Sarah White of Milford, who recently re-cently observed her 81st birthday. He was formerly navigator member mem-ber of a Flying Fortress, or B-17, crew, but more recently had been assigned to a Liberator, or B-24. Born at Auriora and educated at schools in Summit county and the B. Y. U., where he majored in banking and finance, he entered the service as a cadet at Oxnard, California in April, 1941, and served at Sarasota, Florida, and on ferry and patrol assignments before transferring overseas. During Dur-ing his combat service he had been a memlber of crews forced down three times, twice by bad weather and engine failure and once by plane damage from enemy fire. Prior to service on the European front, he attained world-wide publicity as a member of the crew of a transatlantic fortress which was stranded for several days in July, 1942, on a Greenland ice cap. His cousin, Verl Frazier, of Milford, is connected con-nected with the staff of the Dockheed overseas repair forces, and the two boys recently had spent a week together in England. |
