C-47 Crash Memorial - Billing, Montana - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial plaque is inscribed:

Dedicated To the Memory Of:

The twenty-one World War II Army veterans and two fight crew killed or injured near here on December 8, 1945, when an Army C-47 transport plane creashed in a blinding snowstorm while enroute from Newark, NJ to Seattle, WA.  The veterans were from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho and most were due for discharge in Seattle after seeing action in Europe.

Maj. Ray Craft	Lt. Anthony Alansky	Sgt. Charles Ennen
S/Sgt Thomas Thomsen	PFC Clayton Thompson	CPT Lorrell Cassell
T/Sgt. Glenn Marr	T/4 Fred Chapman	T/5 Ned Neasham
Sgt. Don Haley	PFC Maceo Hobbs	PFC David Gillett
T/4 Virgil Kinne	PFC Walter Orchard	T/4 Adolph Tokie
T/4 Warren Parrish	T/5 John Marshall	T/5 Emil Hasch
T05 Raymond Emerson	PFC Raymond Parkins	CPL Milford Barnes

Pilot: George Miller

Co-Pilot: Vernon Pfannkuck

By the Billings United Veterans Council, American Legion Post 119, and the residents of Billings, MT

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Date Logged Log User Rating   01/19/2010 lakeman&tagalong visited it