Military services will be held, Thursday, January 24 at Custer National Cemetery, for Lt. Melvin Hanson, who was killed in an airplane crash on August 31, 1950.Members of the Great Falls Air Base will be in charge of the services, with Major R T Miller, Chaplain, officiating.
Lieutenant Hanson was a navigator in the US Air Force. He was enroute from Saudi Arabia to Rome, aboard the Star of Maryland, a Trans-World Airlines Constellation passenger plane, that crashed in the desert wastes of the lower Nile, in Egypt.
Melvin O Hanson was born in Terry on September 7, 1923, the son of Mr and Mrs Soren Hanson. He attended the Terry schools, and entered the service in WWII as an aviation cadet in 1942. He graduated with a commission as a navigator, and went into active duty in the European theatre, and was shot down over France, while flying in a B-17. After the war, he remained in the Air Force, and had been navigating Air Transport planes ferrying army personnel, radio and radar equipment, to all parts of the world. He was based in Japan for three years.
----The Terry Tribune 1-24-1952
Lieutenant Hanson was a navigator in the US Air Force. He was enroute from Saudi Arabia to Rome, aboard the Star of Maryland, a Trans-World Airlines Constellation passenger plane, that crashed in the desert wastes of the lower Nile, in Egypt.
Melvin O Hanson was born in Terry on September 7, 1923, the son of Mr and Mrs Soren Hanson. He attended the Terry schools, and entered the service in WWII as an aviation cadet in 1942. He graduated with a commission as a navigator, and went into active duty in the European theatre, and was shot down over France, while flying in a B-17. After the war, he remained in the Air Force, and had been navigating Air Transport planes ferrying army personnel, radio and radar equipment, to all parts of the world. He was based in Japan for three years.
----The Terry Tribune 1-24-1952
Military services will be held, Thursday, January 24 at Custer National Cemetery, for Lt. Melvin Hanson, who was killed in an airplane crash on August 31, 1950.Members of the Great Falls Air Base will be in charge of the services, with Major R T Miller, Chaplain, officiating.
Lieutenant Hanson was a navigator in the US Air Force. He was enroute from Saudi Arabia to Rome, aboard the Star of Maryland, a Trans-World Airlines Constellation passenger plane, that crashed in the desert wastes of the lower Nile, in Egypt.
Melvin O Hanson was born in Terry on September 7, 1923, the son of Mr and Mrs Soren Hanson. He attended the Terry schools, and entered the service in WWII as an aviation cadet in 1942. He graduated with a commission as a navigator, and went into active duty in the European theatre, and was shot down over France, while flying in a B-17. After the war, he remained in the Air Force, and had been navigating Air Transport planes ferrying army personnel, radio and radar equipment, to all parts of the world. He was based in Japan for three years.
----The Terry Tribune 1-24-1952
Lieutenant Hanson was a navigator in the US Air Force. He was enroute from Saudi Arabia to Rome, aboard the Star of Maryland, a Trans-World Airlines Constellation passenger plane, that crashed in the desert wastes of the lower Nile, in Egypt.
Melvin O Hanson was born in Terry on September 7, 1923, the son of Mr and Mrs Soren Hanson. He attended the Terry schools, and entered the service in WWII as an aviation cadet in 1942. He graduated with a commission as a navigator, and went into active duty in the European theatre, and was shot down over France, while flying in a B-17. After the war, he remained in the Air Force, and had been navigating Air Transport planes ferrying army personnel, radio and radar equipment, to all parts of the world. He was based in Japan for three years.
----The Terry Tribune 1-24-1952
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