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Kelley, Thomas P.
Air Force Staff sergeant

Thomas P. Kelley, age 20, from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .

Parents: Thomas E. Kelley died in 1946 from injuries suffered in World War II

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, June 18, 1953
Death details: Killed in the crash of an Air Force C0124 Globemaster near Tokyo.

Source: United Press (1953), Pittsburgh Sun Gazette (1953)

Kelley, Thomas Edward
Private

Thomas Edward Kelley, age 40, from Allegheny County McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania .

Parents: Thomas Kelley and Mary McMahon Kelley
Spouse: Camella
Children: Son Air Force Sgt. Thomas E. Kelley was killed in 1953 in a transport plane crash.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Friday, August 9, 1946
Death details: His wife in 1953: “Mr. Kelley was drafted when he was about 35. I had three small children – in 1942, I think. He was shipped over to fight in Africa and Italy. Trapped in a fox-hole for eight days, one of his lungs collapsed. He came back to the States and died in Aspinwall Hospital six months later.”

Source: Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph (1953)

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