Owen, Constant S., Jr.

First Lieutenant Constant S. Owen, Jr. (Class of 1938) was the first Blue Raider to perish in World War II. Commissioned with the U.S. Army Air Force in 1941, he died in Connecticut when his fast recon plane crashed during training in May 1942.

 

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