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 UnknownEighth 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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