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Submitted: 7/15/21 • Approved: 7/16/21 • Last Updated: 7/19/21 • R437183-G0-S3
Texas
CAPTAIN
Antiaircraft Sector Texas National Guard
World War I
January 29, 1900 - July 20, 1950
Flying School Detachment, Air Service Division
Captain Justin Frank Aldrich was born on January 29, 1900 in Rosemont, Cook County, Illinois to George Frank Aldrich & Minnie Florence Carper. Mr. Aldrich died on July 20, 1900 in Phoenicia, Ulster County, New York.
As posted by the Chicago Tribune on November 19, 1950:
RECOVER BODIES OF 5 KILLED IN JULY AIR CRASH
Phoenicia, N. Y., Nov. 19 (P)
The charred skeletons of five Texans, killed July 20 when their plane crashed and burned on Slide mountain, were brought here today by a rescue party which braved a snow storm to reach the isolated wreckage scene. The wreckage, sought since the plane disappeared on a flight from New Jersey to Maine and Canada, was sighted yesterday. A search party went to the top of the 4,320 foot mountain in jeeps, then working their way down 1,500 feet by foot to a ledge where the wreckage rested. Lieut. J. J. Lawson, a New York state trooper, said ground over a wide area had been seared by the flames of the burning plane, but the license of the pilot, 50 year old Justin Frank Aldrich , of Houston, Texas, was not burned. Lost in the crash, in addition to Aldrich, were Mrs. Ann Gill, 44; her two children, Dee Ann Gill, 15, and John T. Gill, 19, and Joseph R. Horrigan, a contractor, an uncle of Mrs. Gill. All were from Houston.
Contributed on 7/15/21 by deanakh1
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