Van Voast Warner Calvert

Monuments

The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan

Name:

Warner Calvert Van Voast

Rank:

First Lieutenant

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Unit:

22nd Bomber Squadron, 341st Bomber Group, Medium

Date of Death:

1945-03-10

State:

Montana

Cemetery:

Turner Cemetery, Turner, Montana

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Warner Calvert Van Voast was born on November 7, 1921. He was the son of Jesse E. Van Voast and Cora E. Calvert Van Voast. He graduated from turner High School in 1939 and from Northern Montana college at Havre in 1942. He enlisted in the Air Corps in May 1942 while still in college.

Warner was a combat pilot on a B-25 who had piloted his plane to China. He went overseas May 29, 1944, and had been there 10 months. He was Killed in Action on March 10, 1945 in China. On a low level sweep of railroad traffic and bridges along the Tientsin-Shanghai railroad near Tuhsien, China, his B-25 Mitchell bomber was shot down by ground fire while making a run on a locomotive. All the crew was lost. Warner is now buried in the Turner Cemetery, Turner, Blaine County, Montana, USA.

1Lt Van Voast 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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