DOB/DOD: August 14, 1918 (Norwalk, CT) – March 21, 1944; 25 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Married Emilie Vaast (1914-1990) on March 12, 1940, in Norwalk.
CHILDREN: One daughter, Diane Kay Mulvoy Scire Rodia (1941-2021)
LOCAL ADDRESS: 1 Webster Court, Norwalk
SERVICE NUMBER: O-823443
UNIT: 91st Photographic Training Squadron, Maxwell Field, Alabama
FAMILY: Born to Anthony J. [KIA in WWI] (1893-1918) and Elizabeth B. Kern Mulvoy (1894-1978). Elizabeth remarried Frederick Bussing in Norwalk in 1927. One half-brother, Douglas Bussing (1930-2015)
NOTE: His father, Anthony J. Mulvoy, was killed in World War I at Montreon Chateau, France. Anthony Mulvoy is one of the namesakes of VFW Post 603 in Norwalk. William Mulvoy was one month old when his father was killed. They never met.
CIRCUMSTANCES: One of five Army airmen who were killed aboard B-24E Liberator #41-29066 when his airplane had a mid-air collision with another B-24 in the skies four miles north of Maxwell Airfield, near Montgomery, Alabama.
From the Connecticut Military Portrait Collection, Connecticut State Library, Identifier: PG570; used with permission
Norwalk High School Class of ’36 (entry appears in the yearbook without a photo)
Norwalk Hour February 11, 1944
Moody Field, Ga – Former Aviation Cadet William A. Mulvoy of 1 Webster Court, South Norwalk, Connecticut recently graduated from the Army Air Forces Pilot School at Moody Field, Georgia, and was commissioned a second lieutenant with the rating of Army pilot. The new flying officers will pilot all types of multi-engine aircraft, heavy, medium, and light bombers, transport, and cargo planes.
Huntsville (AL) Times, March 23, 1944
MAXWELL FIELD BOMBER CRASHES, FIVE MEN DIE
MONTGOMERY, March 22 (AP) – Five Army airmen were killed yesterday in the flaming crash of their Liberator bomber (B-24) after it collided with another bomber a short distance from Maxwell Field. The second Liberator landed without injury to its crew. The victims were listed as Second Lieutenant William Mulvoy, 26, Norwalk, Connecticut; Second Lieutenant Harmer H. Way Jr., 26, Montgomery; Second Lieutenant Carl H. Mojeski, 20, Montgomery; Master Sergeant Earl F. McSwain, 29, Shelby, North Carolina, and PFC Martin J. James, 21, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lt Mulvoy is buried in Riverside Cemetery, 81 Riverside Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut; Section 3 — next to his father. Photos by webmaster.
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