Name:
Earl Everett Baskin
Rank:
First Lieutenant
Serial Number:
Unit:
61st Troop Carrier Group
Date of Death:
1948-01-27
State:
Cemetery:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Florence, South Carolina
Plot:
Section L
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On the 27th of January, 1948, at 1530, 1st Lieutenant Earl Everett Baskin took off from Rhein-Main, Germany, for Italy as pilot in a C-47 Dakota of the American Army. It crashed on the White Horse summit, in the Alps, killing everyone aboard. January 30th, once the C-47’s wreck was confirmed, an American SB-17, two days out from Germany, took off with its six crew, three journalists and a passenger to overfly the area and crashed as well. The only survivor was rescued by a German POW.