Veteran Records

Angus Lytch, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died in a plane crash near Katha, Burma, after completing 75 missions over enemy held Northern Burma in 1944. After his 99th mission, he was assigned a desk job, but he insisted on flying. He died on his 101st mission. He had been in the China-Burma-India Theater for 9 months, as of 9/1944, and had spent the previous summer at Morris Field in Charlotte. Military funeral held on Jan. 15, 1945, with burial in a military cemetery in Burma.

Age at Death: 26

Image Source: Carolina Room photo

William McClain

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in Morotai. Memorial services in Charlotte pending the arrival of his brothers.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

George Andy Little

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Four planes were on a routine flight from Otis Field, MA to Norfolk, VA when the weather closed in. Little bailed out of his plane, which crashed, but his chute did not open in time. Funeral was at the Sharon Presbyterian Church on April 20, 1945, and burial was in the church cemetery.

Age at Death: 30

Image Source: Mecklenburg Times 4-19-45

Houston Lyttle

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died non-battle. Memorial marker at Ft. McKinley, Manila, PI.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Rochelle Dusty McClain, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed instantly in an airplane accident near Kansas City, KS. Was to have been discharged in two weeks.

Age at Death: 24

Image Source: Charlotte Observer 9-22-45

Roland Littles

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died non-battle.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Theodore Malpert

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was stationed at Morris Field and was shot to death by John L. Robinson, a local taxicab driver, in the 800 block of North Brevard St. in Charlotte, NC.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Harold McClellan

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died from wounds received in action in the invasion of Southern France in the late summer. Memorial service at Spencer Memorial Methodist Church in 1944. Joined the National Guard in May, 1936.

Age at Death: 33

Image Source: Charlotte Observer 10-15-44

William Long

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in France.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 12-21-1944

Hunter Marshall, III

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was killed in action when his merchant ship, a tanker called the Merrimack, was torpedoed by submarines and sunk in the Caribbean. A high speed transport named for him, the USS Hunter Marshall, was launched at the Bingham, MA shipyard on May 5, 1945. There is a memorial marker in Battery Park, NYC.

Age at Death: 24

Image Source: Carolina Room photo

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