Charles F Alton, Jr. was the only child and son of Charles F Alton, Sr and Aleta Hightower Alton.
Charles was serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II when he went missing in the Philippines, and his body was never recovered. He has a memorial stone at Forest Park Cemetery in the location of his parents' gravesites.
He also has a Memorial page in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (ABMC), where he is listed on the Tablets Of The Missing:
Sgt Charles Freedeman Alton, Jr.
My father's first cousin.
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According to Aircraft Accident Report # 44-322-514, Sgt. C. F. Alton, serial #38415648, airplane engineer, and two pilots (all of them members of a "transient" P-40 fighter squadron) climbed aboard a B-25D with two Chinese pilots to get some flying time (without permission from the Operations Officer) in training with the 3rd Bomb Squadron, 1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing at Malir Field near Karachi, India (now part of Pakistan). The pilot was flying too low and hit the water. He lost control and the plane submerged in a channel in the mud flats approximately twelve miles S.W. of Landhi Field at about 10:00 a.m. One P-40 pilot, 2nd Lt. Webster Smith, was ejected through the nose tunnel of the plane and paddled to shore using two seat cushions, in spite of breaking both ankles. He was the only survivor.
Contributor: Margaret Kincannon (47014132) (2/1/2020)
Charles was serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II when he went missing in the Philippines, and his body was never recovered. He has a memorial stone at Forest Park Cemetery in the location of his parents' gravesites.
He also has a Memorial page in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (ABMC), where he is listed on the Tablets Of The Missing:
Sgt Charles Freedeman Alton, Jr.
My father's first cousin.
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According to Aircraft Accident Report # 44-322-514, Sgt. C. F. Alton, serial #38415648, airplane engineer, and two pilots (all of them members of a "transient" P-40 fighter squadron) climbed aboard a B-25D with two Chinese pilots to get some flying time (without permission from the Operations Officer) in training with the 3rd Bomb Squadron, 1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing at Malir Field near Karachi, India (now part of Pakistan). The pilot was flying too low and hit the water. He lost control and the plane submerged in a channel in the mud flats approximately twelve miles S.W. of Landhi Field at about 10:00 a.m. One P-40 pilot, 2nd Lt. Webster Smith, was ejected through the nose tunnel of the plane and paddled to shore using two seat cushions, in spite of breaking both ankles. He was the only survivor.
Contributor: Margaret Kincannon (47014132) (2/1/2020)
Charles F Alton, Jr. was the only child and son of Charles F Alton, Sr and Aleta Hightower Alton.
Charles was serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II when he went missing in the Philippines, and his body was never recovered. He has a memorial stone at Forest Park Cemetery in the location of his parents' gravesites.
He also has a Memorial page in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (ABMC), where he is listed on the Tablets Of The Missing:
Sgt Charles Freedeman Alton, Jr.
My father's first cousin.
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According to Aircraft Accident Report # 44-322-514, Sgt. C. F. Alton, serial #38415648, airplane engineer, and two pilots (all of them members of a "transient" P-40 fighter squadron) climbed aboard a B-25D with two Chinese pilots to get some flying time (without permission from the Operations Officer) in training with the 3rd Bomb Squadron, 1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing at Malir Field near Karachi, India (now part of Pakistan). The pilot was flying too low and hit the water. He lost control and the plane submerged in a channel in the mud flats approximately twelve miles S.W. of Landhi Field at about 10:00 a.m. One P-40 pilot, 2nd Lt. Webster Smith, was ejected through the nose tunnel of the plane and paddled to shore using two seat cushions, in spite of breaking both ankles. He was the only survivor.
Contributor: Margaret Kincannon (47014132) (2/1/2020)
Charles was serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II when he went missing in the Philippines, and his body was never recovered. He has a memorial stone at Forest Park Cemetery in the location of his parents' gravesites.
He also has a Memorial page in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (ABMC), where he is listed on the Tablets Of The Missing:
Sgt Charles Freedeman Alton, Jr.
My father's first cousin.
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According to Aircraft Accident Report # 44-322-514, Sgt. C. F. Alton, serial #38415648, airplane engineer, and two pilots (all of them members of a "transient" P-40 fighter squadron) climbed aboard a B-25D with two Chinese pilots to get some flying time (without permission from the Operations Officer) in training with the 3rd Bomb Squadron, 1st Bomb Group, Chinese-American Composite Wing at Malir Field near Karachi, India (now part of Pakistan). The pilot was flying too low and hit the water. He lost control and the plane submerged in a channel in the mud flats approximately twelve miles S.W. of Landhi Field at about 10:00 a.m. One P-40 pilot, 2nd Lt. Webster Smith, was ejected through the nose tunnel of the plane and paddled to shore using two seat cushions, in spite of breaking both ankles. He was the only survivor.
Contributor: Margaret Kincannon (47014132) (2/1/2020)
Inscription
A.A.F. World War II, India
Gravesite Details
Date of death on stone: March 22, 1944 disagrees with the May 22, 1944 date of death as recorded on the Tablets of the Missing in the Manila American Battle Monuments Cemetery.
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