BRADLEY, Maurice Victor - Second Lt., U.S. Army Air Corps; 
enlisted 15-Oct-1940; trained for the service at Spartan Air 
Corps Training Detachment, Tulsa, Ok. and Purdue University, 
Indiana, completing course 03-Aug-1941; commissioned Second 
Lieutenant, Chanute Training Field, Ill. Assigned to 38th 
Reconnaisance Squadron, Albuquerque, N.M., 15-Oct-1941; ordered 
to overseas duty 15-Nov-1941; on board U.S.S. President Johnson, 
05-Dec-1941, this transport reported missing 08-Dec-1941 about 
halfway between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor but returned to 
former port three days later without radio or lights; stationed 
at Bakersfield, Ca. 18-Dec-1941; at Gowan Field, Boise, Idaho 18-
Mar-1942 with B-17 Flying Fortresses, in training. Changed to 303 
Bombing Group as engineer and chemical and armament officer; born 
20-Aug-1916 died 03-Apr-1942 in explosion aboard, during a return 
trip on routine flying from Gowan Field to Hill Field at Ogden, 
Utah. Buried at Hydro, Ok.; Home: Hydro, Caddo co., Ok.; Parents: 
Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Bradley of Hydro; Educated in Hydro public 
schools; attended Southwestern Institute of Technology at 
Weatherford, Ok. for one year; Oklahoma A. & M. College at 
Stillwater, Ok. for four years, chemical engineering.