Kern County Obituaries

William Herbert Davis, Jr.

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 3 Nov 1955

Jet Bomber Crash Kills Two Pilots.
If you were traveling from Lancaster to Rosamond on Thursday late afternoon 
of last week, you noticed 50 cars pulling off the highway and stopping and 
their drivers walking out into the field west of Highway 6. If this aroused 
your curiosity and has bothered you since perhaps we can solve your dilema 
now. The people were walking out to view a crater: 15 feet deep, 30 feet 
long and 20 feet wide which had been blown out of the ground by the crashing 
of a “Sky Warrior" bomber which had crashed in flames in this fortunately 
forsaken spot.

Witnesses said that the big plane was screaming and whistling over the valley 
at an altitude of 200 feet when it exploded in fire and hurtled without 
warning to the earth, Both the pilot, Wm. Herbert Davis, Jr., and research 
engineer, Willard Amick were instantly killed. Davis, a World War II combat 
pilot, came to Douglas in 1945. He resided with his wife and three children .
in Lancaster. Amick, a batchelor: resided in Westwood.