Claude Swanson Adams, Jr. was born on August 26, 1919 in Virginia. He was the son of Claude Swanson Adams and Maud Fergurson Adams. He served in the 11th Combat Cargo Squadron, 3rd Combat Cargo Group as a Corporal and Radio Operator. Corporal Adams lost his life when the C-54 on which he was a radio operator failed to return from a mission over Burma on September 1, 1944. The wreckage was not found until the end of the war, at which time the fliers' remains were interred in the American military cemetery at Barrackport, India. The cemetery was abandoned in 1948 and all remains of the soldiers disinterred. He is now buried in the Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Danville City, Virginia, USA. He served as an aviator in WWII and was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.