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Wright Allen Murray

Name:
Allen Murray Wright
Rank:
Captain
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Unit:
American Volunteer Group
Date of Death:
1943-12-18
State:
Tennessee
Cemetery:
Fairview Cemetery, Dyersburg, Tennessee
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Allen Murray Wright was born in 1920. He had graduated from Dyersburg High School in 1937 and after two years of college enlisted in the expanding Army Air Corp. Passing 36 weeks of training, he received his wings and his commission at Kelly Field. While stationed at Cochran Field in Georgia he would sometimes fly through Dyersburg.

Allen volunteered for service in China and soon left San Francisco bound for the port of Rangoon. He enlisted in the American Volunteer Group, or the Flying Tigers as they were more commonly known. He flew a P-40 in the lst Pursuit Squadron known as the Adam and Eve squadron. While with the unit Allen flew a number of combat missions, shooting down one Japanese plane and sharing credit for shooting down another. On another occasion Allen had his plane shot up and had to come in for a crash landing, where he injured his back. He continued to with the Tigers until they were disbanded on July the 4th, 1942.

Allen returned to China in 1943 began flying cargo for the China National Aviation Corporation. On December l8th, 1943, while on one of these missions, he and a flight of five planes left Dinjam for Iping where he had first served in China.

At about 8:40 a.m. of December 18, 1943, Allen, in plane number 83, crashed in Funganshih Mountain and was killed, as was Capt. Loh who had gone in after him trying to find out what had happened. Allen is now buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, 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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