Floyd Fay Ramsey was born on June 8, 1917 in Lomita, California, one of the sons of Charles and Carl Ramsey. He was raised there and later in Torrance where he lived with his parents on 231st Street. Ramsey attended Narbonne High School where he was Class President in 1935, was on the track team and played fullback on the football team.

He was employed as a steelworker at the Soule Steel Company in Torrance when he registered for the draft. Ramsey volunteered and was inducted into the U.S. Army in March 1941 where he served before training as a pilot.  

Lt. Floyd Ramsey received his pilot wings at Luke Air Base in Arizona and completed intensified training at the Army Air Forces school in Santa Ana, California. He married Jacqueline Ida Kyle on August 22, 1942 in Santa Ana.

In .June 1943 he was sent overseas where he piloted the B-24 Liberator as part of the 93rd Bomber Group, Heavy, 329th Bomber Squadron. The Liberator was a long-range bomber, and the Torrance Herald reported that 2nd Lt. Ramsey had piloted them over North Africa, Sicily, and southern Europe, as well into the interior of Germany to bomb strategic war production centers. He was awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster in October 1943.

On November 13, 1943, Command Pilot 2nd. Lt. Ramsey, assisted by Co-pilot Flight Officer Benjamin Byers, took off from Hardwick, England in a B-24D (serial number: 42-41004) with a squadron of other Liberators to bomb Bremen, Germany, a frequent target of allied bombers due to its military and industrial facilities. His plane was last seen by other pilots of the same mission flying in formation off the coast of Germany.  A few minutes before 1130 hours, Ramsey’s bomber banked off to the right, presumably to abort. The plane and the crew of 10 men failed to return and were never seen again.

Other details are unknown, but the Torrance Herald reported at the time that relatives and friends feared that 2nd Lt. Ramsey was with a group of Army Air Forces that encountered stiff opposition with heavy losses. Initially listed as Missing in Action, 2nd Lt. Floyd Ramsey was later declared dead and Killed in Action by the War Department. He was 26 years old when he died and was survived by his wife Jacqueline.

The other crewmen who perished along with 2nd Lt. Ramsey and F/O Byers were Navigator 2nd Lt. Franklin Parsonage, Bombardier 2nd Lt. Frederick Grenwis, Eng. T/Sgt. Merle Wolfe, Radio Operator T/Sgt. Jack Lang, Rear Waist Gunner S/Sgt. Gerard Sullivan, Left Waste Gunner S/Sgt. Albert Oser, Tun. Gunner S/Sgt. James Haggerty, and Tail Gunner S/Sgt. Richard Duer.

The Ramsey family was very patriotic and had deep roots in Torrance. His father worked at a defense plant, bought War Bonds and passed away in 1954 after living in Torrance for 38 years.  Ramsey’s mother worked as a welder in World War I and was employed at the National Supply Company in Torrance. Ramsey’s half-brother Henry Eugene Garner served in the Army before WWII and was a Sergeant with the Torrance Police Department. His younger brother Ralph Ramsey served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.