Franklin Barney Bellows

[1] Bellows graduated from New Trier High School[2] and Northwestern University,[1] and "enlisted in the first officer's training camp at Fort Sheridan.

While flying "early in the morning of the second day of the St. Mihiel offensive in spite of low clouds, high winds, and mist, flying at an altitude of only 300 meters, and without protection of accompanying battle planes"[3] Bellows' plane was hit with machine gun fire[1] and he "died in the line of duty after securing crucial information on a reconnaissance mission in France.

"[2] Bellows was the observer; the pilot David C. Beebe survived the mission and returned the plane back behind allied lines.

Lt. D. C. Beebe, the pilot on a reconnaissance mission over the lines for the 82nd Division of the 1st Corps, First Army, in the Saint Mihiel section.

Lt. Beebe succeeded in returning safely to the rear of the allied lines, landing at Brin northeast of Nancy.