Wayne Conrad Watts was born Sept. 18, 1918 to Jesse Ulysses and Perina Matilda Peterson Watts. He is buried at New Albany National Cemetery, New Albany, IN with two others from his flight between Chabua, India and Kummin, China where he died Jan. 15, 1945. Their bodies were reinterred from Kalaikunda, India, plot 1, row D, grave 322.
Lt. Watts served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He was originally reported MIA.
Sources: World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Iowa; ancestry.com
