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Show Richmond Man Is Reported War Prisoner-staff Prisoner-staff Sergeant Lowell R. Lewis, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Lewis of Richmond, is a prisoner of war in Germany, his parents were notified by the war department depart-ment Tuesday. Sergeant Lewis, serving as a gunner on a heavy bomber operating operat-ing from England, was reported "missing in action" as of February Febru-ary 16, in the European theater. Sergeant Lewis was born in Richmond, May 19, 1919, a son of Ulysses and Rebecca Roskelley Lewis. He was graduated from the North Cache high school in 1929. He was sent to England after finishing fin-ishing training in the United States, arriving there on September Sep-tember 15, 1942. He had been on several bombing attacks against German U-boat installations at Lorient, France, and may have been with the bomber unit w-hich raided St. Nazaire, France on February 16 when some American planes failed to return. Besides his parents, he has three brothers, Willis Lewis of Salt Lake City, and Jed and Lex Lewis of Richmond, and four grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lewis of Logan, Lo-gan, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Roskelley Ros-kelley of Smithfield. |