D T Bell

Name: DT Bell
Birth Name: Dewitt Talmadge Bell
Hometown: Macon, Georgia, USA
Birthplace: Alabama, USA
Died: 1944-03-20 (Age:23)
Pro Boxer: Record

• Captured the 1938 and 1939 Golden Gloves Middleweight Championship
• Became the Light Heavyweight champion of the American South in 1941
• Reportedly lost only four of 90 career bouts - half of which were fought professionally
• Referred to as the second W. L. Young Stribling
• Died at 23 while piloting a P-46 Thunderbolt for the U.S. Army Corps in WWII
• Inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 (from where this biography comes)

On the support mission to Frankfurt, Germany of 20 Mar 1944 in P-47D #42-75553, the squadron encountered extremely adverse weather and the mission was abandoned. Upon letting down in Brussels, Belgium area, Lt. Bell and his leader, Capt. Porter, started a strafing pass on an airfield. The last seen of Lt. Bell was at the start of the pass. Capt. Porter was shot down and made a prisoner by the Germans, who informed him that Lt. Bell went down. M. I. A. 20th Mar 1944 and changed to Determined Dead 28 Dec 1944. MACR 3398.