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Ingram John W.

Monuments

C47A 42-93038 Plaque

 

Name:
John W. Ingram
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
Unit:
9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division
Date of Death:
1944-07-27
State:
Arkansas
Cemetery:
Sunset Memorial Park, Coos Bay, Oregon
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John W. Ingram was born on January 11, 1913. He served in the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division as a Second Lieutenant and was a passenger on the C47A #42-9303 during World War II. Their aircraft had taken off, along with a second C-47, from its home station of Merryfield, 8 miles SE of Taunton in Somerset, and had flown to Filton on the edge of Bristol where both aircraft took on injured US military service personnel from various units returned from Normandy and accompanying medical staff. In addition a single RAF airman had boarded 42-93038, he was returning home to Ayrshire on leave. Once loading was complete the two aircraft took off from Filton bound for Prestwick.

The injured soldiers were going to be taken back to the US, probably by sea in a convoy leaving from Clyde. At the time the two C-47s arrived at the northern end of the Irish Sea a dense fog hung over the area around the Mull of Galloway which obscured all of the coastal features, including the 200ft high cliffs which 42-93038 flew into above the beach in Cairngarroch Bay to the south of Portpatrick. The second aircraft had also come very close to crashing into the cliffs and landed RAF West Freugh.

2LT Ingram is now buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk