A soldier involved in U.S. Army Air Forces training stateside whose tragic death was published by the press before his family was notified
Category: U.S. Army Air Forces
Major Clinton F. Schoolmaster (1919–1944)
A major and senior controller in a bomb wing by 24, who vanished during a flight
Staff Sergeant William T. Stewart, III (1917–1943)
A young father who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor
Captain Richard M. Durbin (1920–1944)
A DuPont mechanical engineer turned fighter pilot who flew 46 combat missions over Europe
Sergeant Arthur Johnston, Jr. (1923–1944)
An airplane mechanic-gunner whose detachment calibrated ground radar installations in the Aleutian Islands
1st Lieutenant Joseph A. Dugan (1920–1945)
A P-47 pilot, the father of a young son, who was involved in a tragic friendly fire incident in the Philippines
2nd Lieutenant John F. Hudson, Jr. (1920–1943)
An Army Air Forces pilot who lost his life in a mysterious plane crash during crew training
Corporal Vollie C. Hudson (1920–1945)
An N.C.O. in an Army Air Forces maintenance unit whose last furlough home before going overseas proved tragic
2nd Lieutenant William J. McLoughry (1919–1942)
A C-47 copilot who survived the dangerous first American airborne combat mission only to die in a crash weeks later
Private Fred R. Prattis (1912–1944)
A black soldier in an airbase security battalion who served in the southwest Pacific
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