Dorchester Illustration no. 2460 Warren Francis Ames
Early June and D-Day always brings remembrances of those who served in World War II. Even though Warren Francis Ames did not participate in D-Day, he is remembered by a Hero’s Square at Edison and Pond Streets.
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Hero Squares
Warren F. Ames Square
Edison Green Street and Pond Street
Warren Francis Ames United States Army Air Forces 20 October 1924 – 2 March 1946 Warren Francis Ames was born on October 20, 1924 in Boston MA. As a resident of Dorchester, Warren inducted into the United States Army Air Forces on April 26, 1943 and began active duty that same day. Warren served as a Second Lieutenant with the 449th Bomber Group, Heavy, and the 716th Bomber Squadron. On March 2, 1946, Warren was declared missing and presumed dead over Hungary. For the heroism displayed in his service to our country, Warren was awarded the Air Medal, Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. Warren was survived by his parents Margaret Donovan and Henry F. Ames and is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing in the Florence American Cemetery in Florence, Italy.
Boston Globe, March 13, 1946.
Dorchester Flyer “Presumably Dead”
Lt. Warren F. Ames, 20 of Dorchester, officially missing since the Liberator bomber of which he was navigator became disabled over Austria a year ago, has now been listed as “presumably dead,” according to a letter received from the War Department by his mother, Mrs. Margaret Donovan of 46 /Edison Green, Dorchester. A pro-burial mass will be held at St. Margaret’s Church, Columbia Road, at 9 a.m., Saturday.
Mrs. Donovan has corresponded with relatives of the nine other members of the Liberator crew and found that there was only one survivor, the bombardier. Five crew members were executed b the Nazis. Of the four missing and presumably dead, one other, John Knox of 3 Arbella Road, was a Dorchester neighbor of Lt. Ames.
Lt. Ames was a graduate of the High School of Commerce and was attending the Boston University College of Business Administration, when he enlisted in April, 1943. He served with the 15th AAF and completed more than 2 missions.