Boothe C. Haltom
Service ID: O-366455.
Entered the service from Mississippi.
Rank: Captain, U.S. Army
Unit: 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
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1920 United States Federal Census (28 March 1920): Crenshaw, Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 2A, family 25, Panola Ave) – Carothers Haltom (3 Mississippi).
1930 United States Federal Census (02 April 1930): Batesville (Ward 2), Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 1A, family 10, Panola Ave) – Carothers B. Haltom (13 Mississippi).
Boothe C. Haltom, Batesville, Mississippi, went on to attend Mississippi State College in 1935. First Lieutenant B. C. Haltom was an officer in Mississippi State's Regimental Cadet Band, commonly known as the "Maroon Band." The band "consists of a captain, lieutenants, a first sergeant, three of the best drum-majors to be found, and eighty-five musicians. Hard working and enthusiastic, they are especially noted for the complicated and entertaining drills put on between the halves of the football games." Boothe played the cornet. Source: 1938 Mississippi State College Yearbook "Reveille", page 148.
He was a member the Maroon Band all four years; the Collegians three years and a member of Beta Kappa fraternity, Alpha Delta Chapter.
Class of 1938
Boothe Carothers Haltom graduated in May 1938 from Mississippi State College, Starkville, Mississippi with a degree in Business.
STATE MEN GIVEN ROC APPOINTMENT
War Department Announces Mississippians Accepting Commissions
Accepting appointments to the Reserve Corps as second lieutenants, according to a war department announcement, are the following Mississippians: ... Boothe Carothers Haltom, Batesville; ... Source: Daily Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), Friday, 01 July 1938, page 2.
1940 Memphis, Tennessee, City Directory – Boothe C. Haltom, clerk, McKesson-VanVleet-Ellis, r303 N. Avalon.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N 0-366455) entered the Army and serve with the 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, U.S. Army in the South Pacific
01 October 1944
Captain Boothe C. Haltom was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army, two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot: 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot: 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer: TSgt. John F. Semmens, (S/N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator: SSgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/N 39529923), Liberal, Kansas.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA) William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Oscar D. McNeely, (S/N O-7325), Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Captain (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, (S/N O-355966), 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N O-366455), 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st Lt.) John R. Riisoe, (S/N O-2036215), Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
2nd Lt. George D. Steel Jr., (S/N O2036224), Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, (S/N O1640812), 93rd Signal Battalion, Roosevelt, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, (S/N O1289620), 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt. Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr., (S/N O-1288619), 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, (S/N 39197973), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, (S/N 33489435), Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, (S/N 38363676), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, (S/N 15376994), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , (S/N 34466193), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Captain Clement Loughlin Schrader, (S/N SX9339), 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, (S/N QX26597), 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, (S/N TC 10622), Australia.
Arthur Hawley, (S/N TC 7041), Australia.
Roland Ince, (S/N TC 2405), Australia.
John Mignot, (S/N TC 10720), Australia.
Dennis Rawson, (S/N TC 9730), Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Captain Boothe Carothers Haltom is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Magnolia Cemetery, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi.
Service ID: O-366455.
Entered the service from Mississippi.
Rank: Captain, U.S. Army
Unit: 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
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1920 United States Federal Census (28 March 1920): Crenshaw, Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 2A, family 25, Panola Ave) – Carothers Haltom (3 Mississippi).
1930 United States Federal Census (02 April 1930): Batesville (Ward 2), Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 1A, family 10, Panola Ave) – Carothers B. Haltom (13 Mississippi).
Boothe C. Haltom, Batesville, Mississippi, went on to attend Mississippi State College in 1935. First Lieutenant B. C. Haltom was an officer in Mississippi State's Regimental Cadet Band, commonly known as the "Maroon Band." The band "consists of a captain, lieutenants, a first sergeant, three of the best drum-majors to be found, and eighty-five musicians. Hard working and enthusiastic, they are especially noted for the complicated and entertaining drills put on between the halves of the football games." Boothe played the cornet. Source: 1938 Mississippi State College Yearbook "Reveille", page 148.
He was a member the Maroon Band all four years; the Collegians three years and a member of Beta Kappa fraternity, Alpha Delta Chapter.
Class of 1938
Boothe Carothers Haltom graduated in May 1938 from Mississippi State College, Starkville, Mississippi with a degree in Business.
STATE MEN GIVEN ROC APPOINTMENT
War Department Announces Mississippians Accepting Commissions
Accepting appointments to the Reserve Corps as second lieutenants, according to a war department announcement, are the following Mississippians: ... Boothe Carothers Haltom, Batesville; ... Source: Daily Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), Friday, 01 July 1938, page 2.
1940 Memphis, Tennessee, City Directory – Boothe C. Haltom, clerk, McKesson-VanVleet-Ellis, r303 N. Avalon.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N 0-366455) entered the Army and serve with the 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, U.S. Army in the South Pacific
01 October 1944
Captain Boothe C. Haltom was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army, two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot: 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot: 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer: TSgt. John F. Semmens, (S/N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator: SSgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/N 39529923), Liberal, Kansas.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA) William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Oscar D. McNeely, (S/N O-7325), Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Captain (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, (S/N O-355966), 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N O-366455), 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st Lt.) John R. Riisoe, (S/N O-2036215), Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
2nd Lt. George D. Steel Jr., (S/N O2036224), Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, (S/N O1640812), 93rd Signal Battalion, Roosevelt, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, (S/N O1289620), 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt. Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr., (S/N O-1288619), 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, (S/N 39197973), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, (S/N 33489435), Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, (S/N 38363676), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, (S/N 15376994), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , (S/N 34466193), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Captain Clement Loughlin Schrader, (S/N SX9339), 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, (S/N QX26597), 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, (S/N TC 10622), Australia.
Arthur Hawley, (S/N TC 7041), Australia.
Roland Ince, (S/N TC 2405), Australia.
John Mignot, (S/N TC 10720), Australia.
Dennis Rawson, (S/N TC 9730), Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Captain Boothe Carothers Haltom is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Magnolia Cemetery, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi.
Boothe C. Haltom
Service ID: O-366455.
Entered the service from Mississippi.
Rank: Captain, U.S. Army
Unit: 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1920 United States Federal Census (28 March 1920): Crenshaw, Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 2A, family 25, Panola Ave) – Carothers Haltom (3 Mississippi).
1930 United States Federal Census (02 April 1930): Batesville (Ward 2), Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 1A, family 10, Panola Ave) – Carothers B. Haltom (13 Mississippi).
Boothe C. Haltom, Batesville, Mississippi, went on to attend Mississippi State College in 1935. First Lieutenant B. C. Haltom was an officer in Mississippi State's Regimental Cadet Band, commonly known as the "Maroon Band." The band "consists of a captain, lieutenants, a first sergeant, three of the best drum-majors to be found, and eighty-five musicians. Hard working and enthusiastic, they are especially noted for the complicated and entertaining drills put on between the halves of the football games." Boothe played the cornet. Source: 1938 Mississippi State College Yearbook "Reveille", page 148.
He was a member the Maroon Band all four years; the Collegians three years and a member of Beta Kappa fraternity, Alpha Delta Chapter.
Class of 1938
Boothe Carothers Haltom graduated in May 1938 from Mississippi State College, Starkville, Mississippi with a degree in Business.
STATE MEN GIVEN ROC APPOINTMENT
War Department Announces Mississippians Accepting Commissions
Accepting appointments to the Reserve Corps as second lieutenants, according to a war department announcement, are the following Mississippians: ... Boothe Carothers Haltom, Batesville; ... Source: Daily Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), Friday, 01 July 1938, page 2.
1940 Memphis, Tennessee, City Directory – Boothe C. Haltom, clerk, McKesson-VanVleet-Ellis, r303 N. Avalon.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N 0-366455) entered the Army and serve with the 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, U.S. Army in the South Pacific
01 October 1944
Captain Boothe C. Haltom was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army, two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot: 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot: 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer: TSgt. John F. Semmens, (S/N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator: SSgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/N 39529923), Liberal, Kansas.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA) William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Oscar D. McNeely, (S/N O-7325), Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Captain (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, (S/N O-355966), 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N O-366455), 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st Lt.) John R. Riisoe, (S/N O-2036215), Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
2nd Lt. George D. Steel Jr., (S/N O2036224), Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, (S/N O1640812), 93rd Signal Battalion, Roosevelt, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, (S/N O1289620), 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt. Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr., (S/N O-1288619), 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, (S/N 39197973), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, (S/N 33489435), Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, (S/N 38363676), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, (S/N 15376994), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , (S/N 34466193), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Captain Clement Loughlin Schrader, (S/N SX9339), 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, (S/N QX26597), 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, (S/N TC 10622), Australia.
Arthur Hawley, (S/N TC 7041), Australia.
Roland Ince, (S/N TC 2405), Australia.
John Mignot, (S/N TC 10720), Australia.
Dennis Rawson, (S/N TC 9730), Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Captain Boothe Carothers Haltom is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Magnolia Cemetery, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi.
Service ID: O-366455.
Entered the service from Mississippi.
Rank: Captain, U.S. Army
Unit: 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment
Date of Death: 01 October 1944, killed when the plane he was a passenger on crashed somewhere between Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) and Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea).
Status: Missing in Action
Memorialized: Manila American Cemetery – Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1920 United States Federal Census (28 March 1920): Crenshaw, Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 2A, family 25, Panola Ave) – Carothers Haltom (3 Mississippi).
1930 United States Federal Census (02 April 1930): Batesville (Ward 2), Panola County, Mississippi (sheet 1A, family 10, Panola Ave) – Carothers B. Haltom (13 Mississippi).
Boothe C. Haltom, Batesville, Mississippi, went on to attend Mississippi State College in 1935. First Lieutenant B. C. Haltom was an officer in Mississippi State's Regimental Cadet Band, commonly known as the "Maroon Band." The band "consists of a captain, lieutenants, a first sergeant, three of the best drum-majors to be found, and eighty-five musicians. Hard working and enthusiastic, they are especially noted for the complicated and entertaining drills put on between the halves of the football games." Boothe played the cornet. Source: 1938 Mississippi State College Yearbook "Reveille", page 148.
He was a member the Maroon Band all four years; the Collegians three years and a member of Beta Kappa fraternity, Alpha Delta Chapter.
Class of 1938
Boothe Carothers Haltom graduated in May 1938 from Mississippi State College, Starkville, Mississippi with a degree in Business.
STATE MEN GIVEN ROC APPOINTMENT
War Department Announces Mississippians Accepting Commissions
Accepting appointments to the Reserve Corps as second lieutenants, according to a war department announcement, are the following Mississippians: ... Boothe Carothers Haltom, Batesville; ... Source: Daily Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), Friday, 01 July 1938, page 2.
1940 Memphis, Tennessee, City Directory – Boothe C. Haltom, clerk, McKesson-VanVleet-Ellis, r303 N. Avalon.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N 0-366455) entered the Army and serve with the 146th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, U.S. Army in the South Pacific
01 October 1944
Captain Boothe C. Haltom was passenger on a U.S. troop carrier plane (a Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain with Serial Number 42-92062) that took off at 5:47 a.m. on 01 October 1944 from Cyclops Drome near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea (now part of Indonesia) on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Territory of New Guinea (now Papua, New Guinea). Aboard were four flight crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron. Also aboard were passengers from the U.S. Army, two from the U.S. Navy and seven Australians. Although the weather conditions were clear, with occasional scattered thunderstorms, and visibility was good, the plane failed to arrive at its destination. A search for the plane was made over the next few days without results. Nothing is known of what happened to it and no trace of the plane has ever been found. All 27 (4 crew and 23 passengers) were listed as missing in action.
Crew from the 70th Troop Carrier Squadron:
Pilot: 1st Lt. (posthumously promoted to Captain) Russell Andrew Morrison, (S/N 0-740880), De Leon, Texas.
Co-Pilot: 2nd Lt. Kenneth E. Wirth, (S/N 0-772242), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Aerial Engineer: TSgt. John F. Semmens, (S/N 12123113), Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Radio Operator: SSgt. Frank M. Staker, (S/N 39529923), Liberal, Kansas.
Passengers:
Lt. (jg) John Hartwell "Jack" Fezler, D-V (G), USNR (S/N 0-228365), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Oklahoma.
Aviation Chief Ordnanceman (AA) William Cecil Meadville, USNR (S/N 6048993), Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit One (MEIU #1), Navy 134, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Oscar D. McNeely, (S/N O-7325), Headquarters, 25th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group, Oklahoma.
Captain (posthumously promoted to Major) Hal Sayre, III, (S/N O-355966), 821st Engineer Battalion, Aviation, Denver, Colorado.
Captain Boothe C. Haltom, (S/N O-366455), 146th Anti-aircraft Artillery Operations Detachment, Mississippi.
2nd Lt. (posthumously promoted to 1st Lt.) John R. Riisoe, (S/N O-2036215), Headquarters, Far East Air Force, Kansas.
2nd Lt. George D. Steel Jr., (S/N O2036224), Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, Wyoming.
1st Lt. Harry E. Petersen, (S/N O1640812), 93rd Signal Battalion, Roosevelt, Minnesota.
1st Lt. William L. Pilgrim, (S/N O1289620), 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division, South Carolina.
1st Lt. Claude "Alvin" Reese, Jr., (S/N O-1288619), 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Worth, Texas.
Pfc. Paul E. Almon, (S/N 39197973), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Washington.
Pfc. Irvin H. Miller, (S/N 33489435), Battalion Headquarters Company, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Pennsylvania.
T/5 John L. Zajicek, S/N 37181290, 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Mississippi.
Pvt. Francis J. Benson, (S/N 38363676), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Texas.
T/5 Alfred G. Daigneau, (S/N 15376994), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Ohio.
Pfc. William Hardaway Hatch, Jr. , (S/N 34466193), 574th Signal Air Warning Battalion, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Captain Clement Loughlin Schrader, (S/N SX9339), 2/7th Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery, Cowandilla, Australia.
Lt. Peter Ogilvie Graham, (S/N QX26597), 2nd Marine Logistic Group, attached to 1st Australian Corps Headquarters, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Engel, (S/N TC 10622), Australia.
Arthur Hawley, (S/N TC 7041), Australia.
Roland Ince, (S/N TC 2405), Australia.
John Mignot, (S/N TC 10720), Australia.
Dennis Rawson, (S/N TC 9730), Australia.
All U.S. Army crew and passengers were officially declared dead the day of the mission. The U.S. Navy passengers were officially declared dead on 02 October 1945, one year and one day after the plane went missing.
Captain Boothe Carothers Haltom is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing – United States Army and Army Air Forces at the Manila American Cemetery.
He also has a cenotaph in Magnolia Cemetery, Batesville, Panola County, Mississippi.
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