43rd Fighter Squadron

43rd Fighter Squadron class 43C training at Randolph Field, Texas, around March, 1943. Irving DeGon is front row, fourth from the left.

1st Lt. Irving Woodrow DeGon was killed on January 20, 1944, Chabua, India, in a plane crash while piloting a C-46 (#741) during a take off from an airfield, along with crew members named Smith, Shea, and Gray. He was starting his 8th month as a transport pilot in the India-China Wing Army Transportation Corps (ICWATC), and had made 30...