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Frederick Charles Bothwell, Jr, Colonel USAF OBE, Bronze Star Medal, Croix de Guerre, (31 December 1913 – 12 December 1986) was an officer of the 15th Air Force during the Second World War, and a senior executive in New York State government following the war.

Bothwell, the son of Frederick Bothwell, Sr. and Sarah Adams Bothwell was born in Royersford, Pennsylvania and educated at Royersford High School, where he lettered in football. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the class of 1936. That year he married Catherine Rose Hannon of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and with her had a two sons, Frederick and Anthony.

Initially assigned to Air Corps flight training at Ft Sam Houston, Texas, Bothwell was subsequently posted to the 2nd Battalion, Mounted Field Artillery in the Panama Canal Zone, where he led a mounted battery of 75mm howitzers in training exercises in the isthmus. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, he was recalled to service with the Army Air Force in the Ordnance Corps.

Bothwell was assigned responsibility for establishing weapons training and support programs in a number of U.S.A.A.F bases, including Midland, Texas, Pinehurst, North Carolina, and at Grenier Field in Manchester, New Hampshire, among others. He advanced rapidly in rank, and at one point was the youngest full Colonel in the U.S. forces.

Bothwell was assigned to service with the 15th Air Force, comprised of B-24 "Liberator" bombers and deployed with that group to North Africa and Bari, Italy, where he was assigned liaison duty with Marshall Tito's Yugoslav Partisans.

Following V-E Day in 1945 Bothwell was assigned to SHAEF HQ. He retired with a medical disability in 1948, and entered a life of public service initially as Director of the New York State Civil Defense Authority, later as Chief Executive Officer of the New York State Liquor Authority.

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