Children: Frank Thatcher Aldrich
VETERAN-WORLD WAR I
CAPTAIN ANTIAIRCRAFT SECTOR TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
FLYING SCHOOL DETACHMENT, AIR SERVICE DIVISION
Military corrected his rank on his headstone application to MSGT.
Article on Mr. Aldrich's death in the Chicago Tribune was posted on Nov., 20, 1950:
RECOVER BODIES OF 5 KILLED IN JULY AIR CRASH
Phoenicia, N. Y., Nov. 19 (P)
The charred skeletons of five Texans, killed July 20 when their plane crashed and burned on Slide mountain, were brought here today by a rescue party which braved a snow storm to reach the isolated wreckage scene. The wreckage, sought since the plane disappeared on a flight from New Jersey to Maine and Canada, was sighted yesterday. A search party went to the top of the 4,320 foot mountain in jeeps, then working their way down 1,500 feet by foot to a ledge where the wreckage rested. Lieut. J. J. Lawson, a New York state trooper, said ground over a wide area had been seared by the flames of the burning plane, but the license of the pilot, 50 year old Justin Frank Aldrich , of Houston, Texas, was not burned. Lost in the crash, in addition to Aldrich, were Mrs. Ann Gill, 44; her two children, Dee Ann Gill, 15, and John T. Gill, 19, and Joseph R. Horrigan, a contractor, an uncle of Mrs. Gill. All were from Houston.
VETERAN-WORLD WAR I
CAPTAIN ANTIAIRCRAFT SECTOR TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
FLYING SCHOOL DETACHMENT, AIR SERVICE DIVISION
Military corrected his rank on his headstone application to MSGT.
Article on Mr. Aldrich's death in the Chicago Tribune was posted on Nov., 20, 1950:
RECOVER BODIES OF 5 KILLED IN JULY AIR CRASH
Phoenicia, N. Y., Nov. 19 (P)
The charred skeletons of five Texans, killed July 20 when their plane crashed and burned on Slide mountain, were brought here today by a rescue party which braved a snow storm to reach the isolated wreckage scene. The wreckage, sought since the plane disappeared on a flight from New Jersey to Maine and Canada, was sighted yesterday. A search party went to the top of the 4,320 foot mountain in jeeps, then working their way down 1,500 feet by foot to a ledge where the wreckage rested. Lieut. J. J. Lawson, a New York state trooper, said ground over a wide area had been seared by the flames of the burning plane, but the license of the pilot, 50 year old Justin Frank Aldrich , of Houston, Texas, was not burned. Lost in the crash, in addition to Aldrich, were Mrs. Ann Gill, 44; her two children, Dee Ann Gill, 15, and John T. Gill, 19, and Joseph R. Horrigan, a contractor, an uncle of Mrs. Gill. All were from Houston.
Children: Frank Thatcher Aldrich
VETERAN-WORLD WAR I
CAPTAIN ANTIAIRCRAFT SECTOR TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
FLYING SCHOOL DETACHMENT, AIR SERVICE DIVISION
Military corrected his rank on his headstone application to MSGT.
Article on Mr. Aldrich's death in the Chicago Tribune was posted on Nov., 20, 1950:
RECOVER BODIES OF 5 KILLED IN JULY AIR CRASH
Phoenicia, N. Y., Nov. 19 (P)
The charred skeletons of five Texans, killed July 20 when their plane crashed and burned on Slide mountain, were brought here today by a rescue party which braved a snow storm to reach the isolated wreckage scene. The wreckage, sought since the plane disappeared on a flight from New Jersey to Maine and Canada, was sighted yesterday. A search party went to the top of the 4,320 foot mountain in jeeps, then working their way down 1,500 feet by foot to a ledge where the wreckage rested. Lieut. J. J. Lawson, a New York state trooper, said ground over a wide area had been seared by the flames of the burning plane, but the license of the pilot, 50 year old Justin Frank Aldrich , of Houston, Texas, was not burned. Lost in the crash, in addition to Aldrich, were Mrs. Ann Gill, 44; her two children, Dee Ann Gill, 15, and John T. Gill, 19, and Joseph R. Horrigan, a contractor, an uncle of Mrs. Gill. All were from Houston.
VETERAN-WORLD WAR I
CAPTAIN ANTIAIRCRAFT SECTOR TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
FLYING SCHOOL DETACHMENT, AIR SERVICE DIVISION
Military corrected his rank on his headstone application to MSGT.
Article on Mr. Aldrich's death in the Chicago Tribune was posted on Nov., 20, 1950:
RECOVER BODIES OF 5 KILLED IN JULY AIR CRASH
Phoenicia, N. Y., Nov. 19 (P)
The charred skeletons of five Texans, killed July 20 when their plane crashed and burned on Slide mountain, were brought here today by a rescue party which braved a snow storm to reach the isolated wreckage scene. The wreckage, sought since the plane disappeared on a flight from New Jersey to Maine and Canada, was sighted yesterday. A search party went to the top of the 4,320 foot mountain in jeeps, then working their way down 1,500 feet by foot to a ledge where the wreckage rested. Lieut. J. J. Lawson, a New York state trooper, said ground over a wide area had been seared by the flames of the burning plane, but the license of the pilot, 50 year old Justin Frank Aldrich , of Houston, Texas, was not burned. Lost in the crash, in addition to Aldrich, were Mrs. Ann Gill, 44; her two children, Dee Ann Gill, 15, and John T. Gill, 19, and Joseph R. Horrigan, a contractor, an uncle of Mrs. Gill. All were from Houston.
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