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William G. Farrow (Bill) was born on 24 September, 1918 in Darlington, South Carolina, U.S., is a United States Army Air Forces officer. Discover William G. Farrow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 24 years old?

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Age 24 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 24 September 1918
Birthday 24 September
Birthplace Darlington, South Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 15 October, 1942
Died Place Shanghai, China
Nationality United States

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1897

His father Isaac was employed at a cigarette company in Raleigh, North Carolina; his mother Jessie, born in 1897, was the daughter of a wealthy tobacco warehouse owner.

At age sixteen, William became an Eagle Scout.

1917

He was also awarded the Prisoner of War Medal, which, by authorization of Congress in 1985, was given to all members of the United States Armed Forces who had been a prisoner of war after April 5, 1917.

He is the namesake of the Arnold Air Society’s William Glover Farrow Squadron hosted by AFROTC Detachment 775 at USC.

1918

William Glover Farrow (September 24, 1918 – October 15, 1942) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who participated in the Doolittle Raid.

William Farrow was born in Darlington, South Carolina, on September 24, 1918.

1925

Following his completion of the B-25 Mitchell training program, he was sent to Pendleton Field in Oregon as a member of the 34th Bomb Squadron.

1935

He graduated from St. John's High School in May 1935, and went on to attend the University of South Carolina.

1939

During the fall of 1939, he received his pilot training at the Hawthorne School of Aeronautics in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

1940

On November 23, 1940, Farrow joined the United States Army Air Corps' Aviation Cadet Program.

He joined the Air Corps training program in November 1940, and was commissioned in July 1941.

In July of the following year, he obtained his aviator badge and a commission as a second lieutenant at Kelly Field in Texas.

1942

In February 1942, he volunteered to participate in the raid, which took place on April 18 that year.

Farrow was captured by the Japanese after the completion of his bombing mission.

He was tried, and along with two other crew members, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad.

In February 1942, following the squadron's transfer to Columbia Army Air Base in January, Farrow volunteered to participate in the Doolittle Raid, an attempt to retaliate against the Japanese as a result of their attack on Pearl Harbor.

At the time, however, the mission was secret and its target unknown to the volunteers.

On April 1, 1942, after training in various places around the United States, the crews and their respective aircraft departed from San Francisco aboard the USS Hornet (CV-8).

The mission took place on April 18.

The B-25 which Farrow piloted, named Bat out of Hell, was the sixteenth and final aircraft to depart from the Hornet.

After the aircraft's targets in Nagoya, which included an oil tank and aircraft factory, had been bombed, Farrow intended to land in Quzhou.

However, the Japanese had deactivated the beacon that Farrow was using for direction.

1946

His ashes were recovered and interred in the Arlington National Cemetery in 1946, and he posthumously received multiple awards.

In 1946, Farrow was interred with honors at the Arlington National Cemetery, Section 12, Grave 157.

Farrow was posthumously given multiple awards.

These included the Order of the Sacred Tripod (寶鼎勳章) of the Republic of China, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Purple Heart.

2016

The Imperial Japanese Forces were desperately searching for the whereabouts of the raid's 16th aircraft.

Sixteen hours after departure from the Hornet, the aircraft's fuel exhausted, Farrow and his crew bailed out near Japanese-controlled Nanchang, China.

The Japanese captured Farrow and all members of his crew, and subjected them to imprisonment, interrogation, and torture.

The men were subsequently tried and sentenced to death.

Most of the crew members' sentences were commuted to life imprisonment by the Emperor of Japan, but the sentences of three men, including Farrow, stood.

The night before their execution, the men were permitted to write final letters.

The International Red Cross was to mail the letters after receiving them from the Japanese.

The Japanese, however, did not pass on the letters, and they were never mailed.

Farrow wrote letters to his mother and to a friend, Lt. Ivan Ferguson.

In the letter addressed to his mother, Farrow wrote:

"You have given much, so much more to me than I have returned, but such is the Christian way. You are and always will be a real angel. Be brave and strong for my sake. I love you, Mom, from the depths of a full heart... Don't let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything right and that I'll see you all again in the hereafter... So let me implore you to keep your chin up. Be brave and strong for my sake. P.S. My insurance policy is in my bag in a small tent in Columbia. Read Thanatopsis by Bryant if you want to know how I am taking this. My faith in God is complete, so I am unafraid."

At dawn on October 15, the men were taken to a public cemetery near Shanghai, where they were shot by a Japanese firing squad.

Following the bodies' cremation, the ashes were taken to a mortuary.

After the war ended, the men's ashes were recovered and their letters found in a secret file of the War Ministry Building in Tokyo.