Gilman Felch Thompson, Jr.


1946

Architecture

Attended Clemson College during the 1942-1943 school year.

Greenville, South Carolina

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman F. Thompson

Army Air Force, Second Lieutenant

311th Troop Carrier Squadron

Nov 21, 1924

Oct 12, 1945

Died Non Battle

Memorialized at the Honolulu Memorial, Courts of the Missing; and in Woodlawn Cemetery, Greenville, SC

NE

Additional Information

Crew List:

23. Pilot               Coats, KW                1st Lt.
24. Co-pilot          Dams, FJ                  1st Lt.
25. Navigator      Thompson, GF        2d Lt.
26. Engineer         Hayes, EF                 T Sgt.
27. Radio Oper      Neal, OS                  S. Sgt.
28. Extra Pilot       Brickley                    1st Lt.
29. Crew Chief      Unknown
 

Eighth air force aircraft, C-46-D, number 200U44-78391, of 311th troop carrier squadron departed Naha Air Field 1145 hours 12 October 1945.  Type of mission was ferrying troops direct to Iwo-Jima.  The aircraft was last contacted by radio three hours and forty-five minutes from Naha, Okinawa, when a routine position report was given.  Definite cause was never determined.  Number of person aboard aircraft: crew-7; passengers 34: total 41.

Total of 12 search flights using 67 aircraft have been made in the area bounded roughly on the north and south by latitude 26-40N and 23-10N and on the E.St. and west by ?? longitude 135-00E and ?re?s along the lone of bearing…

No eyewitnesses or no description of crash available.  As there is no other land between Okinawa and Iwo Jima, and since there is no report on casually since date of “missing” status there is no other logical conclusion than of a presumption of death for all of these men.

Memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, HI.  There is also a memorial marker to him at Woodlawn Cemetery in Greenville, SC.

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Extra Documents

Vignette in The Echo written by Kelly Durham – In the Courts of the Missing