Walter Cambell Kent, Jr. was born on October 31, 1904. He was a graduate of Sewanee University, Tennessee, trained at Brooks and Kelly Fields, Texas and joined the China National Aviation Corporation in the summer of 1937. Walter, along with the seven Chinese passengers were killed when the passenger air liner of the China National Aviation Corporation that he was piloting was shot down by Japanese warplanes. Two other Chinese passengers and the Chinese Co-Pilot and hostess survived.

The plane, en route from Chungking to Kunming, fell near Chanyl, 80 miles from Kunming. He is now buried in the Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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