DOB/DOD: December 1, 1923 (New Haven, CT) – April 15, 1945; 21 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
LOCAL ADDRESS: Westview Lane, Norwalk, and 528 Flax Hill Avenue, Norwalk
ENLISTMENT: July 10, 1943
SERVICE NUMBER: 31336925
UNIT: 830th Bomb Squadron, 485th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force
FAMILY: Born to Treat Payne Andrew, Sr. (1899-1938) and Eleanor Barnum Andrew (1905-1998). One sister, Marian Andrew Williams (1924-2006).
DECORATIONS: Awarded the Air Medal.
OTHER: Uncle of the actor Treat Williams (1951-2023).
The previous photo was taken in November of 1944 at March Air Force Base. Lt. Larkin’s crew arrived at Venosa in December 1944. Nine members of the crew were killed in late March or early April 1945 when their plane crashed near Mt. Vulture shortly after take-off. One crew member, John Sellers, was switched to another crew during a briefing that day and survived the war. Sellers also bailed out over Zara, Yugoslavia, while flying with Lt. Clarence Adams’ crew on February 23, 1945, was rescued by the Partisans, and returned to duty.
Corporal Andrew served as a Top Gunner on B-24L #44-49024, 830th Bomber Squadron, 485th Bomber Group, during World War II. He was killed In Action when his B-24 was hit by flak and crashed 15 miles West South West of Venosa, Italy.
Airmen who perished on B-24L (#44-49024)
Corporal Treat P. Andrew, Jr. – Connecticut
Corporal Joseph Bengivengo – New Jersey
Corporal W.H. Jackson – California
2nd Lieutenant Robert N. Larkin – Massachusetts
Corporal George H. McCall, Jr. – Virginia
Corporal Robert B. O’Malley – Missouri
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Perry – New York
2nd Lieutenant Barryon L. Turner – Maine
Sergeant George C. Yelland – California
From The Norwalk Hour August 27, 1943
State College, Pennsylvania — Aviation Cadet Treat P. Andrew, 523 Flax Hill Road, South Norwalk, Connecticut, has been assigned to the Pennsylvania State College as an aircrew trainee under the Army Air Forces College Training Program and already has started classes in a variety of academic subjects. His work at Penn State will cover a period of from one to five months and will include military indoctrination and physical training, as well as classroom instruction in English, geography, modern history, mathematics, and physics.
From The Norwalk Hour September 20, 1944
PFC Treat P. Andrew, Jr., who has been training with the Air Corps for 14 months, arrived home on September 7th. H was given a 15-day delay en route, which gave him a week with his family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Walbridge of Flax Hill Road. PFC Andrew recently graduated and received his wings from gunnery school at Harlington Field, Texas. He has now left for San Francisco, California, where he will join a crew to train with a B-24 Liberator.
From The Naugatuck Daily News November 17, 1948
SOUTH NORWALK VET TO BE BURIED HERE
The body of Corporal Treat Payne Andrew, Jr., formerly of South Norwalk, son of Mrs. W.P. Wulbridge, New Canaan, and the late Treat Payne Andrew, will arrive in Naugatuck for reburial Friday evening on the 6:23 train. A gunner on a B-24, he was killed in Italy on April 15, 1945, when returning from a mission over Germany. He was born in New Haven on December 1, 1923, where he lived most of his life. He later resided in South Norwalk. Besides his mother, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Richard N. Williams, of Fanwood, New Jersey, and his grandmother, Mrs. Marian C. Barnum of Darien. Private services will be held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock at the grave in Grove Cemetery, with the Reverend George Fitzgerald of St. James The Apostle Church, New Haven, officiating.
Corporal Andrew is buried at Grove Cemetery, 1 Cross Street, Naugatuck, Connecticut; Central Section, Plot 77, top of the hill. Photos by webmaster.
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