Flight Engineer aboard Beech AT-11 Kansan #42-37328.
Killed in a crash, six miles north of Grass Valley, Oregon.
Pilot, 2LT Chester W Claflin also perished.
The flight was cleared from Klamath Falls on a leg to The Dalles then onward to Pasco, Washington when it crashed in heavy fog and severe icing conditions. A rancher who heard the airplane flying low over his property, found the wreckage the next day during a search, following a news radio report about the missing airmen.
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Enlisted November 4, 1942. He previously had earned a four-year Degree.
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Service ID: 16145887
Killed in a crash, six miles north of Grass Valley, Oregon.
Pilot, 2LT Chester W Claflin also perished.
The flight was cleared from Klamath Falls on a leg to The Dalles then onward to Pasco, Washington when it crashed in heavy fog and severe icing conditions. A rancher who heard the airplane flying low over his property, found the wreckage the next day during a search, following a news radio report about the missing airmen.
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Enlisted November 4, 1942. He previously had earned a four-year Degree.
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Service ID: 16145887
Flight Engineer aboard Beech AT-11 Kansan #42-37328.
Killed in a crash, six miles north of Grass Valley, Oregon.
Pilot, 2LT Chester W Claflin also perished.
The flight was cleared from Klamath Falls on a leg to The Dalles then onward to Pasco, Washington when it crashed in heavy fog and severe icing conditions. A rancher who heard the airplane flying low over his property, found the wreckage the next day during a search, following a news radio report about the missing airmen.
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Enlisted November 4, 1942. He previously had earned a four-year Degree.
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Service ID: 16145887
Killed in a crash, six miles north of Grass Valley, Oregon.
Pilot, 2LT Chester W Claflin also perished.
The flight was cleared from Klamath Falls on a leg to The Dalles then onward to Pasco, Washington when it crashed in heavy fog and severe icing conditions. A rancher who heard the airplane flying low over his property, found the wreckage the next day during a search, following a news radio report about the missing airmen.
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Enlisted November 4, 1942. He previously had earned a four-year Degree.
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Service ID: 16145887
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