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Allan Campbell Powell was born in Spokane to Helen (Campbell) Powell and William W. Powell. He was the grandson of Grace and Amasa B. Campbell. Allan attended school at the Middlesex school of Concord, Massachusetts and the University of Washington. He enlisted in the air corps in the spring of 1942. On January 5, 1944 on his ninth mission as a bomber pilot (B-17) over Europe, Lt. Allan Powell crashed in the vicinity of St. Laurent de Medoc. He was listed as missing in action for a year and then presumed dead. In 1945, his mother donated the land adjoining the Grace Campbell Memorial Museum for the future site of the Cheney Cowles Museum as a memorial to her son.

From the description of Papers, 1944-1945. (Eastern Washington State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 43027334