Graham Jones Barton was born on March 4, 1905. He was the son of James Gregg Barton and Mary Carrol Shaw Barton. Graham served in the 1146th Engineer Combat Group as a Major during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was aboard the C-46D (#44-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. Maj Barton died at the age of 40 and is now buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Calhoun County, Mississippi, USA.